Package: ghostscript Version: 8.64~dfsg-1 Severity: normal Several Brother printers (at least HL2030, HL2040, HL2070; see the debian-user list at the beginning of April 2009) stopped working when ghostscript version 8.64 was introduced. Downgrading to 8.63 solves the problem.
The Brother printer "driver" consists of 2 shell scripts and one closed-source file supplied by Brother. The first shell script ensures that the file to be printed is a .ps file, converting non-ps files to ps if necessary. The second script runs gs, with "bit" as the output device. Then the output is processed by the closed-source program and fed to the printer. The drivers can be downloaded from http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/lpr_drivers.html (for lpr. There are also CUPS drivers; they also do not work with 8.64). gs is called as follows by the second script: (note: one line is 92 chars long) GHOST_SCRIPT=`which gs` OUTPUT_TYPE=bit GHOST_OPT="-q -dNOPROMPT -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -sDEVICE=$OUTPUT_TYPE -sOutputFile=- - -c quit" exec $GHOST_SCRIPT -r$RESOLUTION -g${WIDTH}x${HEIGHT} $GHOST_OPT No idea why this suddenly stopped working. But it did. The second script (called psconv2) produces no output if version 8.64 is used. Regards, Jan -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages ghostscript depends on: ii debconf [debc 1.5.26 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 3.0.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii defoma 0.11.10-0.2 Debian Font Manager -- automatic f ii ghostscript [ 8.64~dfsg-1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF ii gs-common 8.64~dfsg-1 Dummy package depending on ghostsc ii gsfonts 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre ii libc6 2.9-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcups2 1.3.9-16 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libcupsimage2 1.3.9-16 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libgnutls26 2.6.4-2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgs8 8.64~dfsg-1 The Ghostscript PostScript/PDF int ii libgssapi-krb 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-12 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libpng12-0 1.2.35-1 PNG library - runtime ii libtiff4 3.8.2-11 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime Versions of packages ghostscript recommends: ii psfontmgr 0.11.10-0.2 PostScript font manager -- part of Versions of packages ghostscript suggests: ii ghostscript-x 8.64~dfsg-1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF pn hpijs <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
