[cups.general] Images are not printed

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On May 4 14:17 Debian Flo wrote (excerpt):
> When I want to print PDF files using evince most of the times the
> documents are printed *without* images.

Probably an issue in Ghostscript which should be fixed
since Ghostscript 9.04 (current version is 9.05), compare
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753897

Usually Ghostscript is used to convert PDF into PostScript
(called by /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops) and then PostScript
is converted again by Ghostscript via the printer driver
(often called by /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip)
into the final printer-specific format.

Run "grep PID /var/log/cups/error_log" so see which filters
are run by the cupsd to process your particular print job.

As far as I know Ghostscript fails in some cases to convert
PDF into PostScript correctly.

In contrast when you print a PDF from the Adobe Reader, the Adobe Reader
itself converts the PDF to PS so that the Adobe Reader sends PS to CUPS.
Often the Adobe Reader PDF to PS conversion works best so that at least
for a test you should use the Adobe Reader to print PDF (regardless
that the Adobe Reader is non-free software).


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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