[cups] cups 2.0.2 / cups-filters-1.0.62 && printing UTF-8 text files

Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de
Thu Feb 12 01:44:31 PST 2015


Hello,

On Feb 12 10:14 Matthias Apitz wrote (excerpt):
> ported cups-2.0.2 and cups-filters-1.0.62 to one
> of our Linux SLES 11 hosts here.

Awesome!
I gave up making cups-filters for SLE11 because it requires too much
"new stuff" that does not exist on SLE11 (e.g. qpdf, ...) and
even if I made a somewhat crippled cups-filters for SLE11
I might get nothing else but complaints why this or that
functionality does not exist or does not work. In short:
For me cups-filters for SLE11 would be a "Tamagotchi"
( a useless thingy that only wastes time ;-)


> bug in lib/cups/filter/texttops

In general:
Since CUPS 1.6 the texttops filter does no longer belong to CUPS
but to cups-filters. Accordingly issues with texttops should be
reported to the cups-filters upstream Bugzilla at
https://bugs.linuxfoundation.org

In your particular case you wrote:
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# diff /usr/local/cups/lib/cups/filter/texttops*
22c22
< PDF2PS=`which pdftops`
---
> PDF2PS=`which pdf2ps`
37c37
< `dirname $0`/texttopdf "$1" "$2" "$3" "$4" "$5" | $PDF2PS - - - - -
---
> `dirname $0`/texttopdf "$1" "$2" "$3" "$4" "$5" | $PDF2PS - -
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On my openSUSE 13.2 system with cups-filters-1.0.62
/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops contains this already:
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# grep PDF2PS /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops
PDF2PS=`which pdf2ps`
`dirname $0`/texttopdf "$1" "$2" "$3" "$4" "$5" | $PDF2PS - -
----------------------------------------------------------------------

I assume there is no bug in texttops - instead it seems something
went wrong when you made cups-filters-1.0.62 on your SLES 11 host.


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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