On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 07:37, Alex Satrapa wrote: > On 14 Jan 2006, at 21:26, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > to, 2005-12-15 kello 11:43 +0100, Volker Christian Behr kirjoitti: > >> gs -q -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER > >> -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=/tmp/testpage.pdf > >> -dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage -dAutoFilterColorImages=false > >> -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -c save pop -f > >> <spoolfile> > > > Alex: have you tried the above test? Could you please provide me and > > Volker with your results, so that we can resolve this issue? Thanks! > > Yes - I thought I had responded to it some time ago. > > The output is garbled, just like the original PDF printed out by the > cups-pdf printer. > > It turns out that the printing is only garbled when printing from my > Mac OS X computer - when I print from a Windows XP computer the > postscript works fine. So there's something the Mac OS X print system > does differently that causes cups-pdf to have a headache. If you are > prepared to pursue this bug to see what CUPS can do to better handle > printing from Mac OS X, I'd love to continue. > > Printing to PostScript laser printers works fine from this computer. > > I've stripped the command down to the following, that still produces > scrambled output: > gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sOutputFile=out.pdf -c save pop > -f in.ps
What printer driver is your CUPS on the Mac OS X platform using? Perhaps changing there to another PostScript driver will resolve the issue. (What I have in mind is that perhaps your Mac OS X driver uses a font description which is not available on the Linux-server and for some reason the font substitution fails.) > Alex Satrapa > Australian Phenomics Facility > Building 117 Garran Road > The Australian National University > Canberra ACT 0200 Australia > > T: +61 2 6125 1335 > F: +61 2 6125 1381 > W: www.apf.edu.au > > CRICOS Provider #0120C -- Volker Christian Behr Experimentelle Physik V (Biophysik), Physikalisches Institut Universitaet Wuerzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Wuerzburg, Germany Office: Room F-069a +49-931-888-5766 (phone) +49-931-888-5851 (fax)