Bug#712237: cups-server-common: The cost factor for pstops

2013-06-25 Thread Till Kamppeter
I have now changed the cost factors of the filters which come with the cups-filters package (in the upstream BZR repository, will be part of cups-filters 1.0.35). Now the cost factor of pstops in CUPS can stay 66, so the upstream default does not need to be changed and with the new cost factors

Bug#712015: cups-filters: cups-pdf produces ugly pdfs through its pixelated font

2013-06-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 06/20/2013 07:16 PM, James Cloos wrote: With the cups-filters pacakge, that won't help. Ubuntu pushed a change into that package upstream which limits all output of the pdftops filter to LanguageLevel2 (or lower) due to a bug with one HP printer. Which breaks the filter for everyone

Bug#712719: Your workaround worked!

2013-06-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 06/22/2013 11:00 PM, NetCat wrote: Hello mv /usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp /usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp-orig cp /usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp14 /usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp It works. I can print from both machines again. What means that something went wrong with the ipp in Wheezy. Thank you very

Bug#712949: cups-filters’ pdftops filter refuses to output PostScipt LanguageLevel 3

2013-06-21 Thread Till Kamppeter
Fixed in upstream BZR repo of cups-filters, rev. 7069. Now generally PS level 3 is sent if the PPD identifies the printer as PS level 3. There is an exception rule of HP's lasers getting PS level 2 in such a case. Till On 06/21/2013 08:22 AM, cl...@jhcloos.com wrote: Package: cups-filters

Bug#712045: ghostscript-cups: colord icc profile not applied

2013-06-19 Thread Till Kamppeter
I have applied the two patches now in Ghostscript's upstream GIT repository, commit #1b87b820. Thank you very much for the bug report and the patches. Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#712045: ghostscript-cups: colord icc profile not applied

2013-06-19 Thread Till Kamppeter
pplied this fix, too. Thank you very much. Commit: 1149c245e Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#682426: cups: filter gs takes several minutes consuming 100 % of CPU

2013-06-19 Thread Till Kamppeter
The problem is indeed Cairo, which creates a full-page transparency layer even for small images. This happens also very often when printing PDFs with evince, as evince re-renders the output with Cairo instead of passing the input PDF through. There are already upstream bug reports on Cairo.

Bug#712237: cups-server-common: The cost factor for pstops

2013-06-14 Thread Till Kamppeter
The old cost factor (65) I had introduced to overcome an ugliness in the PDF-based printing workflow. If the cost factor is 66 and an app sends a PostScript input file and the printer is PostScript (or some old-fashioned driver insisting on PostScript input is used), I got PostScript - pstopdf -

Bug#712015: cups-filters: cups-pdf produces ugly pdfs through its pixelated font

2013-06-14 Thread Till Kamppeter
I have written more about the cost factor and its motivations in bug #712237 now. Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#711169: cups-daemon: ipp printer browsing support removed

2013-06-05 Thread Till Kamppeter
Thank you very much for the bug report and the patch. The hard switchover from IPP-only broadcasting to Bonjour-only broadcasting on the transition from CUPS 1.5.x to 1.6.x is really bad. cups-browsed is indeed the only solution to get Bonjour browsing to conserve the configuration-less client

Bug#701954: new discoveries

2013-03-14 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 03/13/2013 11:53 PM, David Griffith wrote: Regarding the problem of my prints to a Brother printer being offset, I found this page: http://selig.ws/hejdo/en/computers/linux/brother-printing.html It describes my problems exactly. The solution does not require fiddling with potentially

Bug#682426: cups: filter gs takes several minutes consuming 100 % of CPU

2012-10-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 10/22/2012 06:22 PM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Le lundi, 22 octobre 2012 15.51:19, Paul Menzel a écrit : Didier, thank you for following up on the report. Today I hit this problem again – unfortunately when being in a hurry. It looks like on a new installed system, CUPS is not affected as

Bug#682426: cups: filter gs takes several minutes consuming 100 % of CPU

2012-07-24 Thread Till Kamppeter
The real bug here is a Ghostscript bug. Ghostscript is not able to render a given input file in a reasonable time. This will be best fixed by the upstream developers of Ghostscript. They will need to reproduce the bug without CUPS, therefore we need the original input file and how CUPS has

Bug#611993: [ghostscript] Could reproduce with newer version

2012-07-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
I could also reproduce the problem with Ghostscript 9.05 on Ubuntu Quantal. Therefore I have forwarded the problem upstream: http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693205 Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#682078: hplip: Draft quality makes hpcups failed for Deskjet D2660

2012-07-19 Thread Till Kamppeter
This problem of having one quality level not working looks most like a fault inside the driver. Please report this problem upstream on http://launchpad.net/hplip/ Then the HPLIP developers at HP will get aware of this problem. Please tell there everything which you told here and also post the

Bug#681851: escputil: requires module usblp which is blacklisted by CUPS

2012-07-17 Thread Till Kamppeter
In the newest CUPS package (1.5.3-4) we have lifted the blacklisting again (solving the USB problems with a new USB backend). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#681495: printer-driver-ptouch: rastertoptch installed in directory that's not in cups' PATH

2012-07-13 Thread Till Kamppeter
We have fixed this in Ubuntu already. See: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ptouch-driver/+changelog http://launchpadlibrarian.net/106473938/ptouch-driver_1.3-3_1.3-3ubuntu0.1.diff.gz Please back-sync this package to Debian. Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#679117: printer-driver-ptouch: Incorrect Margins for PT9500PC and PT9800PCN

2012-06-29 Thread Till Kamppeter
Thank you very much for the patch. In your patch you write Attention: Not tested on other printers. and indeed your patch changes code which affects all supported printers, not only the two models with which you were suffering the problem. This can easily break things on the other printers,

Bug#631025: cups: change default ErrorPolicy for network printers

2012-06-21 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 06/21/2012 05:41 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: Till Kamppeter [2012-06-20 18:17 +0200]: CUPS has the retry-job error policy as default only for Ubuntu and there reports like yours never showed up, and also no bug reports for asking to return to the original stop-printer by default. pitti, should

Bug#631025: cups: change default ErrorPolicy for network printers

2012-06-20 Thread Till Kamppeter
CUPS has the retry-job error policy as default only for Ubuntu and there reports like yours never showed up, and also no bug reports for asking to return to the original stop-printer by default. pitti, should we activate the patch to switch to the retry-job error policy as default also for

Bug#664031: Inkscape

2012-06-13 Thread Till Kamppeter
Note that the printing of Inkscape currently does not work. See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hplip/+bug/975972 Inkscape sends pages with zero width and zero height page size setting. Workaround is always to print out of the page preview of Inkscape. Till -- To

Bug#670055: cups-filters: diff for version 1.0.18-2 uploaded to DELAYED/2 for #670055

2012-05-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 05/22/2012 01:39 PM, Tobias Hoffmann wrote: Hmm, I don't really know, but the cups-filters package has a bugtracker at https://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/ (under the OpenPrinting product). But just another debian bug would work equally well ... Till? Tobias, if this needs to be fixed in the

Bug#670055: cups-filters: diff for version 1.0.18-2 uploaded to DELAYED/2 for #670055

2012-05-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 05/22/2012 03:11 PM, Tobias Hoffmann wrote: Well, it's still not clear, who should fix what: 1. cups-pdf should probably announce that it can not only process PS, but also PDF. I'm not sure if the current cups-filter architecture handles this case well. This bug would be one of cups-pdf or

Bug#670055: cups-filters: diff for version 1.0.18-2 uploaded to DELAYED/2 for #670055

2012-05-18 Thread Till Kamppeter
For me it looks OK, I would apply it upstream. Tobias, WDYT? Is this patch on texttopdf OK? Perhaps it also fixes bug 673289. Till On 05/18/2012 03:51 PM, Didier Raboud wrote: tags 670055 + pending thanks Dear Till and Martin, I've prepared an upload for cups-filters (versioned as

Bug#673289: cups-filters: PID xxxxx (/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf) crashed on signal 6.

2012-05-17 Thread Till Kamppeter
Paul, thank you for reporting the bug. Tobias, can you have a look into this? The crash is most probably caused by a font problem. Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#663868: Blacklisting usblp helps

2012-05-04 Thread Till Kamppeter
Please remove the blacklisting for usblp, run # modprobe usblp set CUPS into debug mode: # cupsctl LogLevel=debug and then turn off and turn on the printer again. Does it load its firmware? If not, attach your /var/log/cups/error_log file. Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#669166: Regression: blurry print on HP LaserJet Pro 1102w with foo2zjs since 1.0.16-1.

2012-04-18 Thread Till Kamppeter
Please follow the instructions of the sections CUPS error_log and Capturing print job data on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems. The instructions are for Ubuntu but should also work under Debian. If sudo command does not work for you to run commands as root, open a second

Bug#662025: foomatic-filters: Fails to print if 4.0.12-1 or 4.0.13-1 is installed

2012-03-27 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 03/27/2012 09:28 PM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Thanks again for your help. I rebuild cups-filters 1.0.7-1 in testing (and the required dependencies from sid, where necessary) and now printing on the queue you asked me to set up (with the PPD file from you) works again as expected. Great,

Bug#662025: foomatic-filters: Fails to print if 4.0.12-1 or 4.0.13-1 is installed

2012-03-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
The problem should be fixed by the recent fixes in cups-filters, version 1.0.5 or later. Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#664966: Add an option to disable T3CCITT encoding

2012-03-21 Thread Till Kamppeter
This patch is backported from upstream (see filename of the patch), so no upstream bug needs to get reported. Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#664966: Add an option to disable T3CCITT encoding

2012-03-21 Thread Till Kamppeter
Date: Mon Mar 19 10:06:10 2012 + ps2write - work-around bugs in Brother printer CCITTFaxDecode filter Raised on irc by Till Kamppeter, see Ubuntu bug : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/93 After much work by Chris Liddell and Bruce Stough it transpires

Bug#660420: Some Postscript printer drivers (Kyocera, Brother, maybe others) do not work anymore

2012-03-17 Thread Till Kamppeter
This bug I have fixed with cups-filters 1.0.5-1. This version inserts code snippets into PostScript output for Kyocers and Brother PostScript printers to work around the incompatibilities/PS interpreter bugs. Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Bug#660348: Bug#660420: cups: Prints one blank sheet regardless of document size (Brother HL-5240)

2012-03-17 Thread Till Kamppeter
This bug I have fixed with cups-filters 1.0.5-1. This version inserts code snippets into PostScript output for Kyocers and Brother PostScript printers to work around the incompatibilities/PS interpreter bugs. Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Bug#663564: [Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#663564: Acknowledgement (cups-filters: 'make clean' leaves some object files over)

2012-03-14 Thread Till Kamppeter
Fabian, thank you for the patch. I have applied your second patch to the upstream BZR repository now. It will be incluced from cups-filters 1.0.6 on. Till On 03/12/2012 10:53 AM, Fabian Greffrath wrote: An alternative approach, maybe less intrusive: Instead of touching Makedefs, define the

Bug#663554: Nags me to install proprietary plug-in although printer works

2012-03-12 Thread Till Kamppeter
In the SVN repository for the Debian packaging of HPLIP I have already deactivated HPLIP's automatic pop-up for the firmware installation as it happens with every LaserJet printer (also my PostScript printers which for sure work without plugin). So the next HPLIP package in Debian will have

Bug#663554: Nags me to install proprietary plug-in although printer works

2012-03-12 Thread Till Kamppeter
Quick workaround: Remove the file /lib/udev/rules.d/86-hpmud_plugin.rules Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#662025: foomatic-filters: Fails to print if 4.0.12-1 or 4.0.13-1 is installed

2012-03-11 Thread Till Kamppeter
of the new foomatic-filters. On 03/11/2012 10:32 AM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Hello Till, On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 08:05:20PM +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote: Please set up a print queue with this PPD: http://www.openprinting.org/ppd-o-matic.php?driver=Postscript-Kyoceraprinter=Kyocera-FS-1020D Did

Bug#662025: foomatic-filters: Fails to print if 4.0.12-1 or 4.0.13-1 is installed

2012-03-09 Thread Till Kamppeter
printers need this. Till On 03/09/2012 04:47 PM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Hello Till, On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 10:22:33PM +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote: I have checked your error_log and it shows one job which has successfully completed. I assume that this is the job which did not print for you

Bug#662025: foomatic-filters: Fails to print if 4.0.12-1 or 4.0.13-1 is installed

2012-03-09 Thread Till Kamppeter
Please set up a print queue with this PPD: http://www.openprinting.org/ppd-o-matic.php?driver=Postscript-Kyoceraprinter=Kyocera-FS-1020D Can you print then? Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#663192: [Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#663192: cups-filters: Please add support for embedding of Opentype fonts

2012-03-09 Thread Till Kamppeter
Patches are welcome. Can OpenType be embedded in a PDF? Or would we need to convert such a font? Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#663192: [Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#663192: cups-filters: Please add support for embedding of Opentype fonts

2012-03-09 Thread Till Kamppeter
There are not really time constraints. For Ubuntu Precise 12.04 cups-filters 1.0.5 with texttopdf being fully fontconfig-based is enough. Precise comes with suitable TTF fonts. Currently, the change is more thought for upstream to be prepared for the first distros which drop TTF fonts.

Bug#662025: foomatic-filters: Fails to print if 4.0.12-1 or 4.0.13-1 is installed

2012-03-08 Thread Till Kamppeter
run the command ls -l /etc/cups/ppd/FS-1020D.ppd and attach your /etc/cups/ppd/FS-1020D.ppd file. Thanks. Till On 03/08/2012 09:19 PM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Hello, On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 12:32:02PM +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote: We need some more information about your problem. First, can

Bug#663070: [Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#663070: cups-filters: Please complete the implementation of fontconfig-based font selection

2012-03-08 Thread Till Kamppeter
Fabian, thenk you very much for your patches. It works all correct for me, also with the FreeMono fonts uninstalled. I have applied your patches to the upstream BZR repository so that cups-filters 1.0.5 will include the change. Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#662660: [Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#662660: cups-filters: Please drop ttf-freefonts and use fontconfig to find the best-matching similar font

2012-03-07 Thread Till Kamppeter
Thank you very much. This patch works correctly now. I have committed it to the upstream BZR repository of cups-filters. It will go into the next Debian/Ubuntu package, probably later today. Patches to use fontconfig patterns in the pdf.utf-8.* files are welcome. Till -- To

Bug#662660: [Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#662660: cups-filters: Please drop ttf-freefonts and use fontconfig to find the best-matching similar font

2012-03-06 Thread Till Kamppeter
till@till-precise:~/ubuntu/cups/bzr/build-area/cups-1.5.2$ fc-match FreeMono.ttfDejaVuSans.ttf: DejaVu Sans Book till@till-precise:~/ubuntu/cups/bzr/build-area/cups-1.5.2$ Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#662660: [Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#662660: cups-filters: Please drop ttf-freefonts and use fontconfig to find the best-matching similar font

2012-03-06 Thread Till Kamppeter
I have tried this now: till@till-precise:~/ubuntu/cups/bzr/build-area/cups-1.5.2$ ls -l /usr/share/cups/fonts/ total 16 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 66 Mar 6 17:29 FreeMonoBoldOblique.ttf - /usr/share/fonts/truetype/liberation/LiberationMono-BoldItalic.ttf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 60 Mar 6 17:30

Bug#662025: foomatic-filters: Fails to print if 4.0.12-1 or 4.0.13-1 is installed

2012-03-05 Thread Till Kamppeter
We need some more information about your problem. First, can you tell us which printer (manufacturer/model), connection type (USB, Parallel, USB-Parallel adapter, network, ...), driver you are using? Can you also follow the instructions of the sections CUPS error_log and Capturing print job

Bug#660420: Some Postscript printer drivers (Kyocera, Brother, maybe others) do not work anymore

2012-03-03 Thread Till Kamppeter
The PostScript which gets sent to the printer is generated by Ghostscript, with its ps2write output device and in your case Ghostscript 9.05 is used. Ghostscript is called either by the pdftops CUPS filter (cups-filters package) or by foomatic-rip (foomatic-filters package). So please do the

Bug#649991: [Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#649991: Please rename the hplip packages to the printer-driver- convention

2012-01-05 Thread Till Kamppeter
Thanks for the patch. The patch is not complete. The hplip-data binary package contains the PPD files for HP's PostScript printers, so the hplip package is also a printer driver. The PPD updater is in hplip (a packaging bug). So there should be a new binary package named

Bug#649991: [Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#649991: Please rename the hplip packages to the printer-driver- convention

2012-01-05 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 01/05/2012 01:36 PM, Didier Raboud wrote: On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:16:15 +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote: I based my patch on the summary I did both there [0] and when filing the bug [1], both which didn't get reactions. [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/2011/11/msg00017.html [1] http

Bug#649991: [Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#649991: Please rename the hplip packages to the printer-driver- convention

2012-01-05 Thread Till Kamppeter
OdyX, thank you for the patch. I have reviewed it and applied it now to the SVN repository of HPLIP and uploaded the new package to Ubuntu (Precise). Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#650068: cups-pdf: PDF created are all void without error notice

2011-12-05 Thread Till Kamppeter
Eric, can you follow the instructions of the sections CUPS error_log and Capturing print job data of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems and attach the resulting files uncompressed and as separate attachments? Note that these instructions were created for Ubuntu, but the printing

Bug#639827: gstoraster segfaults on any attempt to print

2011-08-30 Thread Till Kamppeter
Several segfaults in the CUPS Raster output device (this is used by gstoraster) and in Ghostscript in general got fixed in Ghostscript 9.04 and shortly after. The fixes are all contained in the Ghostscript package of Ubuntu Oneiric. I recommend to merge this package to Debian. Till --

Bug#638277: libgs8 segfault : print jobs (recto/verso) stop after 2nd page

2011-08-18 Thread Till Kamppeter
So it is an issue of the CUPS Raster output device of Ghostscript, cups. At Ghostscript upstream we have fixed several segfault bugs in the CUPS Raster output device (see upstream GIT log). Best is to upgrade to current Ghostscript 9.04 (best with cups/gdevcups.c replaced by the one from GIT

Bug#637978: cups: Please add a dpkg trigger to update PPDs on driver upgrades

2011-08-16 Thread Till Kamppeter
Roger, my postinst scripts (which OdyX uses for his trigger solution) conserve the default settings by replacing the PPD files using lpadmin -m. They also support PPDs which do not exist physically but get generated on the fly (listing available PPDs with lpinfo -m and requesting them with

Bug#637184: libjpeg6b linked with -Bsymbolic-functions, causing problems with HPLIP and pxljr

2011-08-09 Thread Till Kamppeter
-functions from LDFLAGS, as this flag +breaks the libjpeg use by HPLIP and pxljr, in both cases for printing +on the HP Color LaserJet 3500/3550/3600 (LP: #777670). + + -- Till Kamppeter till.kamppe...@gmail.com Mon, 8 Aug 2011 19:57:23 +0200 + libjpeg6b (6b1-1ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

Bug#637184: libjpeg6b linked with -Bsymbolic-functions, causing problems with HPLIP and pxljr

2011-08-09 Thread Till Kamppeter
Martin Pitt asked me to report the bug also to Debian. He told the situation there is the same. HPLIP is indeed build-depending on libjpeg-dev and not on libjpeg62-dev. I for got that I did this change, as I only checked binary package dependencies and it seems that in Ubuntu the libjpeg-dev

Bug#636801: argyll and libicc2 packages are based on same tarball, they should get merged

2011-08-05 Thread Till Kamppeter
Package: argyll Version: 1.3.0-3 The packages argyll and libicc2 are both taking their source code from the upstream source tarball of Argyll. Having two (or more) different packages based on the same source code tarball one will easily get into a maintenance nightmare. If a security

Bug#635261: Possible solution: Add -dNOINTERPOLATE to Ghostscript command line

2011-07-24 Thread Till Kamppeter
See my last comment in the Ubuntu bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/foomatic-db/+bug/690116/comments/5 Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#634030: hplip: Please Build-Depends on libjpeg-dev, not libjpeg62-dev

2011-07-16 Thread Till Kamppeter
I have updated the SVN repository of HPLIP now. So it needs only someone to upload the current state. I have tested and after the change it also builds correctly under Ubuntu, so that the Debian and Ubuntu packages can be kept identical. Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#530600: Lexmark printer tray selection problem - Optra T series

2011-06-16 Thread Till Kamppeter
Ruediger, can you attach the PPD files for the print queues with the bad behavior? The files are /etc/cups/ppd/queue name.ppd. Please attach the PPDs to your answer as separate uncompressed files. Thanks. Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#530600: Lexmark printer tray selection problem - Optra T series

2011-06-16 Thread Till Kamppeter
I have updated the upstream BZR repository of foomatic-db and the OpenPrinting web site now replacing all the tray names in the manufacturer-independent InputSlot options by names without tray numbers. The tray numbering can differ from manufacturer to manufacturer. Ruediger has sent me the

Bug#630228: foo2zjs: Firmware upload is not compatible with cups

2011-06-14 Thread Till Kamppeter
I have now updated the Ubuntu package (20110210dfsg-1ubuntu4) applying the attached patch. The patch modifies the firmware upload script hplj1000. It adds support for douing the firmware upload through the usb backend of CUPS. This makes the upload independent of the presence of usblp. It

Bug#630228: foo2zjs: Firmware upload is not compatible with cups

2011-06-14 Thread Till Kamppeter
Small fix done on the patch ... Till Index: foo2zjs-20110210dfsg/hplj1000 === --- foo2zjs-20110210dfsg.orig/hplj1000 2011-06-14 16:30:59.331940282 +0200 +++ foo2zjs-20110210dfsg/hplj1000 2011-06-14 16:31:26.151976656 +0200 @@

Bug#630227: cups 1.4.6-8 does not support usblp anymore, breaking foo2zjs

2011-06-12 Thread Till Kamppeter
An update of foo2zjs to do the firmware transfer without usblp is planned, at least for Debian and Ubuntu. I will create an appropriate package soon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#630228: foo2zjs: Firmware upload is not compatible with cups

2011-06-12 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 06/12/2011 04:03 PM, Didier Raboud wrote: I'm hereby CC'ing the CUPS maintainers; opinions ? I know about that problem and I will update the firmware upload script in the foo2zjs package soon, so that it also works with libusb. Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#630228: Info received (Bug#630228: foo2zjs: Firmware upload is not compatible with cups)

2011-06-12 Thread Till Kamppeter
The fix is simple. The firmware uploader script needs to determine whether usblp is loaded or not, and if it is not loaded and the CUPS filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/usb exists, it should run a command line like this (1020 replaced by actual model number): for uri in `sudo

Bug#630228: foo2zjs: Firmware upload is not compatible with cups

2011-06-12 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 06/12/2011 05:29 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: Why is this not being done at a lower level, e.g. via udev or other existing hotplug mechanisms? Firmware-loading for /any/ device is not the remit of cups, and it's really not cups' call to disable any module loading. Do you know a tool which can

Bug#628573: hplip bonjour breaks for some hp printers (e.g. Photosmart D110a)

2011-06-06 Thread Till Kamppeter
Can you report you problem to the HPLIP developers at HP, at https://launchpad.net/hplip/? Thanks. Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#627770: foomatic-db-engine doesn't work with foomatic-db-compressed-ppds

2011-05-25 Thread Till Kamppeter
The concept is the following: The recommended Foomatic setup for end users (and default Foomatic setup on Ubuntu) is foomatic-db-compressed-ppds and foomatic-rip. The pre-built and compressed PPD files in foomatic-db-compressed-ppds take much less space than the Foomatic XML data of

Bug#627542: foo2zjs: Duplex printing option gone

2011-05-25 Thread Till Kamppeter
Sam, does your printer have a duplex unit? Or was the duplex option in the PPD files only for activating a manual duplex function? In the latter case the manual duplex function in the driver was replaced by a GUI tool (gnome-manual-duplex) which helps the user to get through the steps and to

Bug#615202: libgs8: SEGV in gs when called from pstoraster (and in other contexts)

2011-02-26 Thread Till Kamppeter
Thank you for the nice bug report with fix. I will apply the fix upstreamm. I have no file to reproduce it. Can you send me your file by e-mail? Thanks. Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#594322: [Foo2zjs-maintainer] Bug#594322: foo2zjs: Please upgrade to more recent version for Squeeze.

2011-02-24 Thread Till Kamppeter
Also thank you very much for accepting my changes. Now the differences between the Ubuntu (Natty, 11.04) package and the Debian package are minimal: 1. The Ubuntu package has the hook for the automatic bug reporting system Apport. 2. In the Ubuntu package the menu entry for the paper-out

Bug#594322: [Foo2zjs-maintainer] Bug#594322: foo2zjs: Please upgrade to more recent version for Squeeze.

2011-02-24 Thread Till Kamppeter
OK. Then take the Apport hook into the Debian package and we keep foo2zjs identical on Debian and Ubuntu. Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#594322: [Foo2zjs-maintainer] Bug#594322: foo2zjs: Please upgrade to more recent version for Squeeze.

2011-02-15 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 11/05/2010 04:10 AM, Luca Capello wrote: Hi there! On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 02:21:35 +0200, Luca Capello wrote: On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:16:49 +0200, Till Kamppeter wrote: On 09/27/2010 06:53 PM, Luca Capello wrote: 4) I am not sure debian/local/ is the right place for non-upstream files

Bug#613408: ghostscript: prints extra blank page

2011-02-14 Thread Till Kamppeter
You can use the cupsfilter utility to run filter chains manually to find out which filter breaks things. Till On 02/15/2011 12:44 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Hi Brian, brian m. carlson wrote: When I print a file with ghostscript 9, I always get a blank page printed first. Then my

Bug#610928: Backward compatibility script needed for HP PPD upgrade

2011-01-24 Thread Till Kamppeter
The Debian packages of HPLIP (hplip, hplip-cups, hpijs, and hpijs-ppds) should generally update the PPDs of the existing print queues to the current packages version in the post-install scripts. Can you attach the PPD(s) which did not get updated automatically to this bug report? Thanks.

Bug#122415: gs vertically misaligns printed output

2011-01-23 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 01/23/2011 02:23 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: gs -sDEVICE=stp \ This bug is obsolete. The built-in Ghostscript driver stp does not exist any more in current Ghostscript. It is replaced by the CUPS-Raster- and IJS-based flavors of Gutenprint. So this bug can be closed. Till -- To

Bug#587272: warning from defoma: It is recommended to run defoma-app purge gs

2010-12-07 Thread Till Kamppeter
=low + + * debian/ghostscript.preinst: Clean up traces of Ghostscript in defoma +via defoma-app purge gs, so that when updating packages which still +use defoma no warnings get issued (Closes: #587272). + + -- Till Kamppeter till.kamppe...@gmail.com Tue, 7 Dec 2010 23:59:59 +0100

Bug#605397: hplip: Won't print anything (gives unsupported format message)

2010-11-30 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 11/29/2010 10:55 PM, Sam Morris wrote: This was solved by installing ghostscript-cups. It is only Recommended by cups; should hplip depend on it? Since HPLIP 3.9.6b-1 (exactly 3.9.4b-1ubuntu4) the hplip-cups package depends on ghostscript-cups. So for all Debian releases with this HPLIP

Bug#605397: hplip: Won't print anything (gives unsupported format message)

2010-11-29 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 11/29/2010 10:55 PM, Sam Morris wrote: This was solved by installing ghostscript-cups. It is only Recommended by cups; should hplip depend on it? The binary package hplip-cups should depend on it, as this package contains a CUPS Raster driver which needs ghostscript-cups. Till --

Bug#598639: foomatic-gui/printconf: Not working in modern CUPS environments

2010-09-30 Thread Till Kamppeter
Package: foomatic-gui Version: 0.7.9.3 Severity: serious The printer setup tools provided by the foomatic-gui source package, printconf and foomatic-gui are not usable any more in modern CUPS environments. There are several problems which make the mentioned printer setup tools not working

Bug#598248: foomatic-db-engine: Takes a long time to spool/print after recent upgrade

2010-09-28 Thread Till Kamppeter
The 2 PPD files are absolutely identical. Are you sure that you have tested printing the same file in the two cases (please attach the file) and that you have downgraded only foomatic-db-engine (not any other package like foomatic-filters, ghostscript, ...)? Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#598248: foomatic-db-engine: Takes a long time to spool/print after recent upgrade

2010-09-27 Thread Till Kamppeter
I do not see any functional changes between foomatic-db-engine 4.0.4-2 and 4.0.4-3. Can you downgrade to 4.0.4-2 to see whether this fixes your problem? Can you attach your printer's PPD file (in /etc/cups/ppd/) once with 4.0.4-2 installed and once with 4.0.4-3 installed? Which driver are you

Bug#594322: [Foo2zjs-maintainer] Bug#594322: foo2zjs: Please upgrade to more recent version for Squeeze.

2010-09-27 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 09/27/2010 06:53 PM, Luca Capello wrote: I have some concerns about the Ubuntu package, here the first of them, I will continue on another email as far as the integration progresses. 1) I do not understand why from version 20100210-0ubuntu1 the debian/changelog contains the following:

Bug#596467: Please make libsane-hpaio recommend hplip (not depend on)

2010-09-13 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 09/12/2010 02:22 PM, Pascal Dormeau wrote: I had a look to the way this problem is solved for Ubuntu in Launchpad (make libsane-hpaio depend on hplip) and I believe this solution will prevent users from installing libsane-hpaio in stand-alone (without hplip), as publicized in the package

Bug#596467: Please make libsane-hpaio recommend hplip (not depend on)

2010-09-13 Thread Till Kamppeter
The setting of the PPD paths via the post-install script of hplip is no problem. libsane-hpaio does not need these paths, so nothing breaks if hplip gets installed after libsane-hpaio. In addition, hplip sets the paths to places where itself provides The PPD files. We do not expect any users

Bug#596467: libsane-hpaio: only works if hplip is installed

2010-09-12 Thread Till Kamppeter
Fixed in Debian SVN repo and on Ubuntu in HPLIP 3.10.6-1ubuntu6. The fix will appear in the next HPLIP upload to Debian. Thanks for reporting the bug. Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#593338: CUPS filters produce postscript that hangs Ricoh Aficio 3035

2010-09-07 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 09/07/2010 06:26 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Note that even if you don't have an appropriate a Debian or Ubuntu installation you can still look at the PostScript output. It is available in http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3646+P0+S-2+C0+I0+E0+M1000+Q as port9100_1.4.4-2.dump. I have

Bug#593338: CUPS filters produce postscript that hangs Ricoh Aficio 3035

2010-09-06 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, in the Debian bug report http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=593338 a user complains that his Ricoh Aficio 3035 printer hangs when printing from Debian on it. Probably the PostScript going to the printer is somehow broken. George, Bin, Ulrich, can someone of you please

Bug#590163: Changes in foomatic-db

2010-08-11 Thread Till Kamppeter
To save space, the PPDs in foomatic-db got compressed. They are all compressed in the /usr/lib/cups/driver/openprinting-ppds and /usr/lib/cups/driver/openprinting-ppds-extra files. CUPS extracts needed PPD files automatically.Nothing will change for you if you set up printers with the web

Bug#590163: Changes in foomatic-db

2010-08-11 Thread Till Kamppeter
OdyX, you are partially wrong. The OpenPrinting database, available through the OpenPrinting web site ot through the foomatic-db package, provides two types of data: 1. XML files from which the pages of the OpenPrinting web site and also PPD files, the so-called Foomatic PPDs are generated.

Bug#590163: Changes in foomatic-db

2010-08-11 Thread Till Kamppeter
Note also that PPDs for most HP printers are not provided by the OpenPrinting database and therefore not provided by foomatic-db any more for longer time. This is because HP ships their PostScript PPDs with the HPLIP package and maintains them there (and I do not want to ship redundant and

Bug#532097: RFC: Forming a Printing Task Force (was RFA: cups -- Common UNIX Printing System)

2010-07-02 Thread Till Kamppeter
=== I just joined Chris Lawrence, along with Till Kamppeter in maintaining some foomatic-* packages. Then I noticed the big² pile of work in ghostscript, cups and many surrounding packages. I don't intend to fingerpoint specific people or teams, but the situation is worrying : some unresolved

Bug#555892: ptouch-driver -- CUPS/Foomatic driver for Brother P-touch label printers

2010-02-25 Thread Till Kamppeter
I have packaged this driver now for Ubuntu, available as ptouch-driver in the Universe repository of Lucid. Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#555892: RFP: ptouch-driver -- CUPS/Foomatic driver for Brother P-touch, label printers

2009-11-12 Thread Till Kamppeter
Thank you for your work on packaging the ptouch driver. I have tried it and I have done the following changes: 1. I have corrected the upstream version number of the Debian package. It must be 0.13. 2. I have added a margin definition to the driver/ptouch.xml file assuming zero margins. Now

Bug#555892: RFP: ptouch-driver -- CUPS/Foomatic driver for Brother P-touch, label printers

2009-11-12 Thread Till Kamppeter
Sorry, I had the wrong tarball. Upstream version 1.3 was correct. Attached is the fixed .diff.gz for upstreamversion 1.3 with the correct margin definition. Till ptouch-driver_1.3-1.diff.gz Description: Unix tar archive

Bug#544172: Fwd: [Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#544172: cups: please remove useless composite filter cpdftocps

2009-09-05 Thread Till Kamppeter
No, this is a part of the PDF printing workflow. As PDF is the standard job format, PostScript printers need a driver now, which turns PDF to PostScript and especuially inserts the option code of the PPD into the PostScript output. This is done by the cpdftocps filter. Transforming incoming

Bug#530731: Replaced one of the proposed bug fix patches

2009-06-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
On June 11 I have proposed two bug fix patches for the Debian package of Poppler. One of them needs some additional changes to correctly work. So do not use the 10_pdftops-multiple-page-size-support.patch which I have attached to this bug report earlier, but the patch attached to this

Bug#533186: [Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#533186: Bug not fixed, sorry

2009-06-18 Thread Till Kamppeter
Martin-Éric Racine wrote: 2009/6/18 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org: Sorry, but cups depends on ghostscript-cups since it cannot work without it. AFAIK only certain printers depend on ghostscript-cups. Till can correct me if I'm wrong. Yes, that's it. ghostscript-cups contains the

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