No clue I must admit. Looking at the log file on 2.5.1 everything seems to run smoothly but I end up with a blank file.
I can investigate further; I would just need some directions. Rgds Jean-Philippe -----Original Message----- From: Martin-Éric Racine <q-f...@iki.fi> Sender: m.e.rac...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:48:36 To: Jean-Philippe Thierry<jphthierry.pe...@gmail.com>; <619...@bugs.debian.org> Reply-To: q-f...@iki.fi Subject: Re: [Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#619461: Bug#619461: cups-pdf: PDFVer and GSCall keys not taken into account 2011/3/31 Jean-Philippe Thierry <jphthierry.pe...@gmail.com>: > 2011/3/24 Volker Behr <b...@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> >> >> >> On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 17:54 +0100, Jean-Philippe Thierry wrote: >> > 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. Right, because this was the patch that resulted in Ghostscript options being ignored. I'm just wondering why you get different results with 2.5.1-1 that with a 2.5.0 with that patch removed. Martin-Éric
