[cups.general] CUPS 1.4.2 on CentOS6: Problems with -o fitplot option

[Jan Hubený]

Hello,

we have problems with printing postscript (or pdf) files with the -o 
fitplot option on our server.

Our server configuration is following

CentOS 6, CUPS 1.4.2, ghostscript 8.70

when we tested  the fitplot option with following commands:

lpr -Pprinter -o fitplot  test.ps
lp -d printer test.ps -o fitplot

It seems that the option fitplot is completely ignored. The printer 
output is same as without this option. Further, it is not problem of one 
specific printer, the behaviour is same on all 40 printers in our company.

Moreover we suppose that the problem  is in the CentOS distribution of 
CUPS because of this two reasons:

1) We test the cups print server with the identatical configration 
(files in /etc/cups/) and ppd's on Ubuntu server and the fitplot option 
works correctly on this configuration.
2) We have found a Redhat EL5 bug report which is quite similar to our 
problem and CentOS 6 is just free RedHat EL6 recompilation.
   for the bug report see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=629932

Finally, my questions:

1) Did anybody in this conference solve this problem (on CentOS6)? How 
(workaround)?
2) Is there a way how to test where in the cups filter chains is the 
fitplot option ignored on my server?


With regards,

Jan Hubeny




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