[cups] pdftops causes duplex page premature ejection on Brother

[Helge Blischke]

Yes, that should fix the whole duplex problem.

Good luck,

Helge


Am 27.02.2014 um 22:36 schrieb Richard Chan:

> Thanks for the pointer; Fedora 20 has a new build 9.10-6-fc20
> that fixes duplex with gs a renderer.
>
>
> F20 is using CUPS 1.7.0 - the /PageSize feature is now inserted by
> the pstops filter. Does this "fix" the second issue you refer to?
>
> %%BeginFeature: *PageRegion A4
> << /PageSize [595 824] /ImagingBBox null>> setpagedevice
> %%EndFeature
>
> ----------------------------------------
>> From: HelgeBlischke at web.de
>> To: cups at cups.org
>> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 18:51:36 +0100
>> Subject: Re: [cups] pdftops causes duplex page premature ejection  
>> on Brother
>>
>> Please check the Ghostscript version your system uses. There was an
>> important
>> fix with the ps2write device (which the respective CUPS filter uses)
>> in that the
>> setpagedevice operand at page start is only called if the newly  
>> defined
>> page size differs from the previously defined one.
>> This fix appeared firstly in version 9.05 of Ghostscript.
>>
>
>
>> But there is still another quirk with this duplexing (tested with  
>> CUPS
>> 1.5.3 on an Ubuntu 3.2.0 system):
>> The openprinting filters – pdftopdf, pdftops – seem to suppress
>> inserting page size related
>> statements (bracketed with BeginFeature and EndFeature comments) 		  
>> 	   		
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