Package: cups-filters Version: 1.0.34-3 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
Version 1.0.24 of cups-filters introduced the ability to use acroread instead of ghostscript (or poppler) for converting PDF to PostScript in the pdftops filter. Adobe Reader converts to PostScript much much faster than GhostScript which is slow to the point of being unusable on documents with complex transparency. However, the path to acroread (and indeed the other renderers) is set at build time and cannot be changed at run time. If acroread is found in the path at build time, this is used, otherwise it's set to a zero length string and the filter fails when specifying this option (which can be done at run time). I realise, that Debian does not include acroread, but it can be installed from the deb-multimedia package which puts acroread in /usr/bin/. Would you consider configuring cups-filters with the --with-acroread-path=/usr/bin/acroread option? I realise that this is a hack, but at least acroread could be used this way. Thanks, David -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages cups-filters depends on: ii bc 1.06.95-8 ii fonts-freefont-ttf 20120503-1 ii fonts-liberation 1.07.2-6 ii ghostscript 9.05~dfsg-8 ii libc6 2.17-7 ii libcups2 1.6.2-10 ii libcupsfilters1 1.0.34-3 ii libcupsimage2 1.6.2-10 ii libfontconfig1 2.10.2-2 ii libfontembed1 1.0.34-3 ii libgcc1 1:4.8.1-2 ii libijs-0.35 0.35-8 ii liblcms2-2 2.2+git20110628-2.2 ii libpoppler19 0.18.4-6 ii libqpdf10 4.1.0-2 ii libstdc++6 4.8.1-2 ii ttf-dejavu 2.33+svn2514-3 Versions of packages cups-filters recommends: ii colord 1.0.1-1 ii foomatic-filters 4.0.17-1 ii ghostscript-cups 9.05~dfsg-8 Versions of packages cups-filters suggests: ii foomatic-db-compressed-ppds [foomatic-db] 20130609-1 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-printing-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130713133534.23708.61009.report...@swires.marshwiggle.net