[cups.general] Print PCL with printer info from PPD?

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Wed Mar 14 03:23:07 PDT 2012


James Cloos wrote:

> Helge Blischke <h.blischke at acm.org> writes:
> 
>> Well, Xpdf's pdftops, the poppler based pdftops equivalent, or a recent
>> Ghostscript (>= 9.01 which supports the ps2write device) all generate
>> fairly well formed PostScript streams.
> 
> But they still can crash gs or printer-resident ps interpreters.
> 
> Try printing the lcms2 docs.  IIRC, page 89 of the API reference crashes
> gs and KM's interpreter after having been converted to ps by poppler.
> 
> The tutorial also fails to completely print.
> 
> I've had problems with other files in the past; the lcms docs were the
> most recent.
> 
> Other printers might have problems with certain fonts.
> 
> -JimC

Well, I use poppler based pdftops 0.18.3 and Ghostscript 9.05 and could 
print all the lcms2 docs (2-2.1) without any problems.

Helge





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