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

[Burke Sean]

Hi Helge,

Thanks for the information. I setup as suggested in the documentation and it now appears to pick up gstoraster when comparing OLD to NEW logs, but the output is the same.

OLD
zebra.log:d [11/May/2011:13:41:55 -0100] cupsdStartProcess(command="/opt/csw/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster", argv=620c288, envp=ffbf1798, infd=18, outfd=23, errfd=15, backfd=16, sidefd=20, root=0, profile=0, job=620a360(1083), pid=620a3e8) = 11763
zebra.log:I [11/May/2011:13:41:55 -0100] [Job 1083] Started filter /opt/csw/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster (PID 11763)
zebra.log:d [11/May/2011:13:41:55 -0100] cupsdStartProcess(command="/opt/csw/lib/cups/filter/rastertolabel", argv=620c288, envp=ffbf1798, infd=22, outfd=21, errfd=15, backfd=16, sidefd=20, root=0, profile=0, job=620a360(1083), pid=620a3ec) = 11764
zebra.log:I [11/May/2011:13:41:55 -0100] [Job 1083] Started filter /opt/csw/lib/cups/filter/rastertolabel (PID 11764)
zebra.log:d [11/May/2011:13:41:58 -0100] cupsdFinishProcess(pid=11764, name=ffbff7e0, namelen=1024, job_id=ffbff3d8(1083)) = "/opt/csw/lib/cups/filter/rastertolabel"
zebra.log:d [11/May/2011:13:41:58 -0100] cupsdFinishProcess(pid=11763, name=ffbff7e0, namelen=1024, job_id=ffbff3d8(1083)) = "/opt/csw/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster"
zebra_gstoraster.log:d [11/May/2011:14:25:05 -0100] cupsdStartProcess(command="/opt/csw/lib/cups/filter/gstoraster", argv=623b240, envp=ffbf18c8, infd=-1, outfd=22, errfd=16, backfd=17, sidefd=21, root=0, profile=0, job=620e048(1086), pid=620e0cc) = 12018

NEW
zebra_gstoraster.log:I [11/May/2011:14:25:05 -0100] [Job 1086] Started filter /opt/csw/lib/cups/filter/gstoraster (PID 12018)
zebra_gstoraster.log:d [11/May/2011:14:25:05 -0100] cupsdStartProcess(command="/opt/csw/lib/cups/filter/rastertolabel", argv=623b240, envp=ffbf18c8, infd=19, outfd=24, errfd=16, backfd=17, sidefd=21, root=0, profile=0, job=620e048(1086), pid=620e0d0) = 12019
zebra_gstoraster.log:I [11/May/2011:14:25:05 -0100] [Job 1086] Started filter /opt/csw/lib/cups/filter/rastertolabel (PID 12019)
zebra_gstoraster.log:d [11/May/2011:14:25:08 -0100] cupsdFinishProcess(pid=12018, name=ffbff910, namelen=1024, job_id=ffbff508(1086)) = "/opt/csw/lib/cups/filter/gstoraster"
zebra_gstoraster.log:d [11/May/2011:14:25:08 -0100] cupsdFinishProcess(pid=12019, name=ffbff910, namelen=1024, job_id=ffbff508(1086)) = "/opt/csw/lib/cups/filter/rastertolabel"

The entry in the ppd for the printer specifies:
*LandscapeOrientation: Plus90
*cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-raster 50 rastertolabel"

Any more thoughts?

Cheers

Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: cups-bounces at easysw.com [mailto:cups-bounces at easysw.com] On Behalf Of Helge Blischke
Sent: 11 May 2011 13:55
To: cups at easysw.com
Subject: Re: [cups.general] pdf orientation issue in Cups 1.4.6 and ghostscript 9.02

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

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