[cups] Printed output has umlaut instead of capital P

Helge Blischke HelgeBlischke at web.de
Fri Jun 27 00:16:06 PDT 2014


Peter,
please try to print your LaTeX generated PDF via the command line, e.g.:
lp -d your_printer -o page-rages=1-20 your_pdf_file
and see if the issue persists.
If not, the culprit is not CUPS but the application you are printing  
from.

Helge

Am 26.06.2014 um 23:12 schrieb Peter Flynn:

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> This is a weird one. I'm just about to print a very long document (a
> thesis), and I printed a selection of test pages first.
>
> After five pages, all capital P characters are substituted with an
> umlaut (diaeresis) character (ยจ). The document is set in T1 Charter,  
> and
> the error occurs in the default roman only (not italic, bold, or
> anything else). The characters in the document display correctly on  
> the
> screen: the error occurs only when printing.
>
> I did another test of the first 20 pages and the same thing  
> happened. I
> printed it from qpdfview and evince: same thing. I can't use acroread,
> as it is stuck fast in lo-res (150dpi) monochrome for some unknown  
> reason.
>
> The system is running Xubuntu 14.04 and CUPS 1.7rc1. The printer is  
> a HP
> K7100 attached to an Xubuntu 13.04 machine in the next room, connected
> over the wired network, running CUPS 1.7.2. No other printout has
> demonstrated this error, and I've been printing large and complex docs
> for a long time.
>
> If I copy the file to one of the iMacs and print it from there to the
> same printer, it seems to work OK. The iMac runs CUPS 1.7.2.
>
> This is a ~500pp PDF generated with pdflatex. There were no errors in
> processing except a few trivial overfull \hboxes. The end of the log
> file says:
>
>>> Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 24254 strings out of
>>> 493307 339189 string characters out of 6139906 583714 words of
>>> memory out of 5000000 26952 multiletter control sequences out of
>>> 15000+600000 210125 words of font info for 303 fonts, out of
>>> 8000000 for 9000 981 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
>>> 59i,20n,124p,1106b,2552s stack positions out of
>>> 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,80000s
> [snip font log]
>>> Output written on thesis.pdf (493 pages, 12062434 bytes). PDF
>>> statistics: 4758 PDF objects out of 5155 (max. 8388607) 2583
>>> compressed objects within 26 object streams 0 named destinations
>>> out of 1000 (max. 500000) 862 words of extra memory for PDF
>>> output out of 10000 (max. 10000000)
>
> Yes, 303's a lot of fonts: the document has a lot of complex  
> formatting
> examples.
>
> My gut feeling is that something, somewhere, is running out of memory.
> Could this be CUPS or one of its rasterisers? Does CUPS or even PDF  
> have
> any kind of "conserve memory at the expense of speed" switch that
> pdflatex could set?
>
> ///Peter
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