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

[Helge Blischke]

James Cloos wrote:

>> 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.
> 
> My poppler is git master; gs is 9.05.
> 
> Using pdftops -level2 creates ps which does this once the job gets to
> page 89:
> 
> Error: /rangecheck in --xyshow--
> Operand stack:
>    474.947   590.637   (\003R)   --nostringval--   (\003R)
>    --nostringval--
> Execution stack:
>    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
>    --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
>    --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1894
>    1   3   %oparray_pop   1893   1   3   %oparray_pop   1877   1   3
>    %oparray_pop   1771   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--
>    %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
>    --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
>    --nostringval--
> Dictionary stack:
>    --dict:1161/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:78/200(L)--
>    --dict:74/75(L)--   --dict:19/25(L)--   --dict:9/15(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Last OS error: 11
> Current file position is 6654592
> GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> 
> pdftops -level2sep gives the same error.
> 
> Gs is happy with the -level3 and -level3sep output.
> 
> The -level1 and -level1sep ps is grayscale and dies at the same point as
> the level2.
> 
> pspcl6 (the language switch build) from ghostpdl master also dies on
> page 89 with a rangecheck error in xyshow.
> 
> That said, most of the file which crashed my printer worked in gs.  But
> I never managed to convince the printer to use the duplexer with pcl or
> pxl files.  I tried adding the (correct) pjl commands at the start of
> the file, but they were ignored.
> 
> GS might have encluded pcl/pxl code specifying simplex printing?
> 
> Or it is a bug in the printer.
> 
> (The doze driver generates xps; I don't know what the osx driver does.)
> 
> -JimC

Tried the same with the option -level2 (instead of -level3) and it went 
through without any problem. BTW, my libpoppler is libpoppler.19.dylib (I'm 
working with Mac OS X 10.5.8).
Perhaps you could post (an URL to) the failing PDF?

Helge