[cups] Difficulties with printing music score .pdfs

[Helge Blischke]

Alan, I recently was able to solve a similar problem with a Canon printer.
Please send me
a) the PDF which exhibits the issue to „helgeblischke at web dot de“,
(as the list strips off attachments),
b) an excerpt of the cups error_log containing the messages regarding to the job
(see below).

Helge

PS: to get the relevant messages, you may follow these steps:
1) execute cupsctl —error-logging
2) print the test file
3) execute grep 'Job xxx‘ /var/log/cups/error_log > some_temp_file
   (where xxx is the job ID of the test job).

> Am 01.09.2015 um 16:23 schrieb Alan McConnell <alan at his.com>:
> 
> Assembled Wisdom!
> 
> I am the reasonably contented possessor of a Canon three in one
> printer-scanner-copier,  imageCLASS MF4770n .  With help from
> members here, I got my CUPS + lpadmin to work, and now I can
> print fine, mostly.  But see below.   I got very good advice
> from the SANE E-list and now I can scan quite well.
> 
> But!  I am still having problems with printing .pdfs bearing
> music notation.  I am Attaching a one page .pdf of an orchestra
> part to a Beethoven symphony.  It displays just fine with evince
> and xpdf.  The 'file' command tells me that it is a
>    PDF document, version 1.5 .
> Yet when I run  'lp beeth-1symph-p1.pdf', I get some cramped
> non-discernable scrawling at the top inch of my 8x11 sheet and
> the rest is covered with deep dense Black!  hideous waste of
> toner!
> 
> Is this CUPS' fault?  is it the Canon's fault?  I suspect that
> since the page is slightly bigger than 8x11, the problem may
> lie there?  But when I print large .jpgs, the image is shrunk
> down to fit an 8x11 sheet quite appropriately.
> 
> I suspect that this List will -- automatically? -- cut off
> the Attachment.  But perhaps someone has some ideas?  or maybe
> someone will volunteer to accept the Attachment privately, and
> can see what her/his Canon makes of it.
> 
> Many thanks in advance for anticipated help!
> 
> Alan
> 
> P.S. I run 'old-stable' Debian Wheezy.  I would need some convincing
> to persuade me that this problem would go away if I moved to a
> newer Debian release.
> 
> -- 
> Alan McConnell :  http://globaltap.com/~alan/
>      Memory says, "I did that."  Pride replies, "I could not have
>      done that."  Eventually, Memory yields.(Friederich Nietzsche)
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