[cups-devel] [UNKN] STR #4643: Printing specific PDF fails due to pstops crash

[Takis Issaris]

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I have two almost identical PDFs, one of which prints without any issues or
warnings, the other silently failed to print. In the CUPS error_log file I
noticed that pstops crashed while processing that specific PDF. I openend
that same PDF file with multiple PDF viewers (OSX 10.10.3 viewer and Adobe
Acrobat), processed that same PDF file with Ghostscript using the
commandline pdftops tools, and used the CUPS filters (pdftops and pstops)
but could not reproduce the crash on the commandline. On that same system
printing that same file with lpr using CUPS causes the aforementioned
crash.

I'm using CentOS 6.6 (which apparently ships with this ancient version of
CUPS).

The "working.pdf" file is nearly identical to the 'wontprint.pdf', but
prints flawlessly. I've added it for comparison.

Link: https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4643
Version: 1.4.2
Attachment: https://www.cups.org/strfiles.php/3512/wontprint.pdf
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