[cups] PDF printing postscript jibberish

[Chris Coleman]

BTW, this has only been an issue after loading cups onto a completely new
server. Prior to this I was using cups 1.6.3 (I believe) on ubuntu 10.04
and everything worked great.


On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Chris Coleman <c at chriscoleman.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately, the documents contain some personal information.
> I took the 3 page document that was printing the jibberish and using pdftk
> to split it into 3, 1 page documents. Pages 1 and pages 3 printed fine.
> Page 2 still output the jibberish. Might the fonts have something to do
> with it?
>
>
> $ pdffonts original.pdf
> name                                 type              encoding
> emb sub uni object ID
> ------------------------------------ ----------------- ----------------
> --- --- --- ---------
> HLEHGU+ArialMT-Identity-H            CID TrueType      Identity-H
> yes yes yes      3  0
> OCRA                                 TrueType          WinAnsi
> yes no  no      14  0
> JUZZUS+New                           CID TrueType      Identity-H
> yes yes yes     24  0
> Times-Bold                           Type 1            WinAnsi
> no  no  no      25  0
> Times-Roman                          Type 1            WinAnsi
> no  no  no      26  0
> Times-BoldItalic                     Type 1            WinAnsi
> no  no  no      27  0
> AAAAAA+Arial-Bold                    TrueType          WinAnsi
> yes yes yes     37  0
> AAAAAB+Arial                         TrueType          WinAnsi
> yes yes yes     38  0
> AAAAAC+Arial-Italic                  TrueType          WinAnsi
> yes yes yes     39  0
> AAAAAD+Times-New-Roman-Bold          TrueType          WinAnsi
> yes yes yes     40  0
> AAAAAE+OCR_A-BT                      TrueType          WinAnsi
> yes yes yes     41  0
> ILVTLR+ArialMT-Identity-H            CID TrueType      Identity-H
> yes yes yes      4  0
> Free3of9Extended-Identity-H          CID TrueType      Identity-H
> yes no  yes     19  0
>
> $ pdffonts pg1.pdf
> name                                 type              encoding
> emb sub uni object ID
> ------------------------------------ ----------------- ----------------
> --- --- --- ---------
> HLEHGU+ArialMT-Identity-H            CID TrueType      Identity-H
> yes yes yes      5  0
> OCRA                                 TrueType          WinAnsi
> yes no  no      11  0
> Times-BoldItalic                     Type 1            WinAnsi
> no  no  no      17  0
> JUZZUS+New                           CID TrueType      Identity-H
> yes yes yes     19  0
> Times-Roman                          Type 1            WinAnsi
> no  no  no      18  0
> Times-Bold                           Type 1            WinAnsi
> no  no  no      24  0
>
> $ pdffonts pg2.pdf
> name                                 type              encoding
> emb sub uni object ID
> ------------------------------------ ----------------- ----------------
> --- --- --- ---------
> HLEHGU+ArialMT-Identity-H            CID TrueType      Identity-H
> yes yes yes      5  0
> AAAAAA+Arial-Bold                    TrueType          WinAnsi
> yes yes yes     13  0
> AAAAAE+OCR_A-BT                      TrueType          WinAnsi
> yes yes yes     20  0
> AAAAAD+Times-New-Roman-Bold          TrueType          WinAnsi
> yes yes yes     27  0
> AAAAAC+Arial-Italic                  TrueType          WinAnsi
> yes yes yes     34  0
> AAAAAB+Arial                         TrueType          WinAnsi
> yes yes yes     41  0
>
> $ pdffonts pg3.pdf
> name                                 type              encoding
> emb sub uni object ID
> ------------------------------------ ----------------- ----------------
> --- --- --- ---------
> Free3of9Extended-Identity-H          CID TrueType      Identity-H
> yes no  yes      5  0
> ILVTLR+ArialMT-Identity-H            CID TrueType      Identity-H
> yes yes yes     11  0
> HLEHGU+ArialMT-Identity-H            CID TrueType      Identity-H
> yes yes yes     17  0
>
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