[cups.general] pdf orientation issue in Cups 1.4.6 and ghostscript 9.02

[Helge Blischke]

Burke Sean wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We are currently using Cups 1.2.7 with ESP Ghostscript 815.04 on solaris
> 10. We are in the process of moving over to a new server and we have
> installed Cups 1.4.6 and GPL Ghostscript 9.02.
> 
> One of our documents that is a pdf label that we send to a Zebra ZPL Label
> Printer is no longer coming out in the correction orientation. Any ideas
> as to where to even begin to start to debug this issue?
> 
> I suspect it may be to do with the new ghostscript version as the docs
> state ""By default Ghostscript determines viewing page orientation based
> on the dominant text orientation on the page. Sometimes, when the page has
> text in several orientations or has no text at all, wrong orientation can
> be selected."
> 
> Any thoughts appreciated.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Sean
> 
> Sean Burke
> UNIX Systems Engineer
> Stryker S.A.
> Cité-Centre, Grand-rue 92
> 1820 Montreux
> Switzerland
> 
> tel.: + 41 21 966 13 54
> mbl: +41 79 362 85 15
> sean.burke at stryker.com<mailto:sean.burke at stryker.com>
> www.stryker.eu<http://www.stryker.eu>
> 
> 
Before you tear your hair, try the gstoraster filter as a replacement of the 
pdftoraster or pstoraster filters (it is a replacement for both). It has 
been tested with various ghostscript versions.
See the links on www.cups.org:

http://www.cups.org/links.php?V207+Qgstoraster

Helge