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

[Jan Hubený]

Dne 4.11.2011 10:47, Helge Blischke napsal(a):
> Jan Hubený wrote:
>
>> Dne 3.11.2011 15:51, Helge Blischke napsal(a):
>>> Jan Hubený wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dne 2.11.2011 12:40, Helge Blischke napsal(a):
>>>>> Jan Hubený wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> First, try using the option "fit-to-page" instead of "fitplot" as the
>>>>> latter has been deprecated since 1.4.x (but should still be available).
>>>> I tried both options (-o fitplot -o fit-to-page also loger variants -o
>>>> fitplot=true and -o fit-to-page=true) without any success.
>>>>> Generally, I suspect the pdf to ps converter used in your distro does
>>>>> not honour this option(s). In cups 1.4.x, the pdftops filter is
>>>>> essentially a wrapper that calls whatever is availyble on the system -
>>>>> xpdf based pdftops, poppler based pdftops, or ghostscript. The fitplot
>>>>> and fir-to-page options are passed to the called pdf to ps converter
>>>>> but then stripped off the options list for the following pstops filter
>>>>> to prevent repeated (and possibly faulty) application.
>>>>>
>>>>> Without more information on the used filter chain and the implemented
>>>>> utilities it is hard to guess more on this issue.
>>>> I append the full CUPS log of incorrect CentOS filter chain and from
>>>> correct Ubuntu filter chain.  The main difference I can see is that Cent
>>>> OS iflters the ps file through pstops filter and sends it to printer.
>>>> Ubuntu converts the ps file to pdf then makes some filtering then
>>>> converts it back to ps via xpdf based filter and then sends it to
>>>> printer via backend.  I will grab more info if needed.
>>>>
>>>> Jan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> Could you please post (an URL to) the original input file?
>>> And the PPD of the CendOS6 system?
>> In this file is the printed ps file, printer ppd and whole /etc/cups
>> folder from incorrect centos and correct ubuntu
>>
>> http://www.ulozto.net/10876180/cups-problem-tar-gz
>>> Helge
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> Jan, I'm getting lost on that web site. Whatever I klick on, it takes me to
> "#login an this page" or similar or even redirects me to facebook, but
> download nothing, and my knowledge of Czech is near absolute zero.
>
> Helge
Helge,

I sent the requested config file via

http://www.uschovna.cz/en/package/D43N3NJKZR8ME872-KH8

thwe website shound now be in english. Sorry for the incovenience.

Jan

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