Control: affects -1 src:cups-filters

Le vendredi, 14 janvier 2011, 21.05:30 Emil a écrit :
> A landscape PDF was produced and then printed with lpr. The print was
> incorect because it was not rotated. I'm using magicfilter on my
> system for printing (this is not relevant though) and my printer
> filter calls pdftops and then the PostScript file is passed to
> ghostscript for printing.
> 
> If I add the paper parameter to pdftops like this
>       "0 %PDF fpipe /usr/bin/pdftops -paper A4 $FILE -"
> then the printing is correct and the created PS file is properly
> marked/rotated
> 
> This bug also affects printing from xpdf but there is no workaround
> for xpdf because xpdf uses common libraries with pdftops and when it
> sends the file to the printer it is already converted to PS and
> setting the psPaperSize to A4 in /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc has no effect.
> 
> This bug appeared in the last 3-4 months, before that both pdftops and
> xpdf were printing properly.

As Till mentionned on the debian-printing list [0], there is a patch 
available on the upstream bug tracker that addresses this bug [1].

Please backport it to poppler so that the workaround in cups-filters can 
be dropped.

[0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/2013/12/msg00005.html
[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72312

Cheers, OdyX

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