[cups.development] Filters and rotation

Tim Waugh twaugh at redhat.com
Thu Mar 31 02:18:45 PDT 2011


On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 19:13 +0100, Jon Peatfield wrote:
> Is this with the old cups pdftops (which had code based on an old version 
> of xpdf pdftops) or the newer version where cups pdftops calls an external 
> xpdf/poppler pdftops or gs?

It's the new pdftops filter which is a wrapper around calls to
poppler/gs.  In my case it is using poppler's pdftops.

> Do you know what cups options are present when the job is submitted?  Can 
> you obtain the command-line arguments passed to the filters (and any child 
> processes)?

The problem is reproducible with no options given.

> As I'm sure you already know cups options like 'fit', 'landscape' or 
> 'orientation-requested' can influence what rotations are attempted by cups 
> pdftops.

The 'landscape' option makes no difference.

Tim.
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