[cups] Printed output has umlaut instead of capital P

Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de
Fri Jun 27 06:41:30 PDT 2014


Hello,

only "for the fun" an addendum how mad all that stuff actually is:
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# echo hello | a2ps -1 -M a4 -o- | ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 - >/tmp/hello.a4.pdf

$ evince /tmp/hello.a4.pdf
[printing from evince into the testy print queue
  results /var/spool/cups/d00266-001]

# cp /var/spool/cups/d00266-001 /tmp/hello.a4.evince.printout.pdf

# pdfinfo /tmp/hello.a4.pdf
Title:          stdin
Author:         root
Creator:        a2ps version 4.13
Producer:       GPL Ghostscript 9.07
CreationDate:   Fri Jun 27 15:20:17 2014
ModDate:        Fri Jun 27 15:20:17 2014
Tagged:         no
Form:           none
Pages:          1
Encrypted:      no
Page size:      595 x 842 pts (A4)
Page rot:       0
File size:      10904 bytes
Optimized:      no
PDF version:    1.4

# pdfinfo /tmp/hello.a4.evince.printout.pdf
Creator:        cairo 1.12.16 (http://cairographics.org)
Producer:       cairo 1.12.16 (http://cairographics.org)
Tagged:         no
Form:           none
Pages:          1
Encrypted:      no
Page size:      612 x 792 pts (letter)
Page rot:       0
File size:      26038 bytes
Optimized:      no
PDF version:    1.5

# gs -sDEVICE=bbox /tmp/hello.a4.pdf
...
%%BoundingBox: 23 23 572 815

# gs -sDEVICE=bbox /tmp/hello.a4.evince.printout.pdf
...
%%BoundingBox: 48 21 564 767
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When printing an A4 PDF file from evince, it generates
a new Letter PDF printout.

Also viewing the files using
# gs -r50 /tmp/hello.a4.pdf
versus
# gs -r50 /tmp/hello.a4.evince.printout.pdf
shows the difference.

=> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884753


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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