Hi,
2011/3/24 Volker Behr <b...@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> > > > On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 17:54 +0100, Jean-Philippe Thierry wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Le 24 mars 2011 15:44, Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.rac...@iki.fi> > > a écrit : > > 2011/3/24 Volker Behr <b...@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>: > > > The log-file you sent me contains the following line: > > > > > > Thu Mar 24 11:05:53 2011 [DEBUG] file already pdf, simply > > copying it > > > > > (cp /var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-12256 > /home/jpht/tmp/PDF/Bugs_in_package_cups-pdf_--_Debian_Bug_report_logs.pdf) > > > > > > This option to directly copy PDF instead of reprocessing it > > was > > > suggested to me some time back and I decided not to > > implement it since > > > it would disable all options set in cups-pdf.conf on the > > respective > > > files. This is exactly what happens to you here: the PDF is > > just passed > > > through instead of getting re-worked with all your desired > > options by > > > CUPS-PDF. > > > > > > So, speaking for upstream: no fix needed. > > > My advise to the distribution: remove this additional patch > > on CUPS-PDF > > > since it breaks basic functionality. > > > > > > The patch in question was removed in 2.5.1-1 as far as Debian > > and > > Ubuntu are concerned: > > > > * Dropped 70_cups-pdf_support-pdf-workflow.patch > > + This patch has received more criticism than praises from > > the end-users, > > because it essentially renders the Ghostscript options in > > cups-pdf.conf > > useless, plus it no longer applies cleanly to the > > upstream code. > > > > From this perspective, I'd mark the issue as fixed since that > > version. Agreed? > > > > Martin-Éric > > > > just tried installing cups-pdf from sid on my squeeze. GSCall and > > PDFVer are taken into acount but... I am only getting 1 page empty > > documents; even failling back to the default settings > > in /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf. Could it be due to a dependency issue even > > if not raised by the package? > > > > log file attached > > > Just as a note: > > might be related to issue #617468 > > > > I end up recompiling the package from source (squeeze version) removing patch 70_cups-pdf_support-pdf- workflow.patch and it works. Thanks folks for your help. -- Jean-Philippe
