[cups] PDF printing postscript jibberish

Helge Blischke HelgeBlischke at web.de
Wed Aug 27 14:19:10 PDT 2014


 From the pdffonts list, I cannot see any cause for page 2 not  
printing OK
except the embedded fonts are corrupted.

Helge

Am 27.08.2014 um 22:53 schrieb Chris Coleman:

> I misspoke, my current server is ubuntu 14.04.1 Server version not the
> desktop version. Our old server was the 10.04 desktop version.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Chris Coleman <c at chriscoleman.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> 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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