I have not seen a real workaround for HP 5550 till now, the only
workaround is to print everything into PDF file first, then print PDF
file out. I give up on printing from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS all together.
This Bug Has Never Been Fixed!
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No, this bug has never been fixed!
I have been updating and monitoring my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS regularly, and
still have the same problem with the same bug
"/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstopdf failed".
I can never print anything out of my HP 5550 printer except PDF files
since I upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 L
Checked this bug and it is confirmed by openSUSE that it is a Poppler
bug, which also affects other Linux based OS like openSUSE 12.2.
Currently it is known to affect HP printer 5550 and HP 6400 series
printer on 32-bit machine. No report for the same bug from 64-bit
machine.
Checked Poppler-tool
The newest CUPS update 1.5.3 lets /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops call "pdftops
-origpagesizes"
to fix a bug and apparently this generates a new bug here:
(pdftops) crashed on signal 8!
(/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops) stopped with status 8
It appears that the problem is caused by SIGFPE Floating Poi
Public bug reported:
ubuntu-bug /var/crash/_usr_bin_pdftops.7.crash won't load the crash
report. Here is the copy of the beginning of the crash file.
It appears that it caused by SIGFPE Floating Point exception. and the
root cause is an uninitialized variable leading to a division by zero in
popp
