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Hi, I don't know if this is the proper place to post my problem here but I
think it might be related.
My cups-pdf works fine all the time but recently (I don't know when it starts,
but surely after I
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Johnny Bilek, please report this as a new bug instead of hijacking an
arbitrary, already fixed bug for this. According to the printers which
you are using the pdftops filter which is discussed here is not
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 382379 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382379
I'm noticing something in all of the pdf examples here, on my machine,
and output to an HP Laserjet 6L and HP Photosmart 6280. Is anyone else
seeing the odd text kerning? I've noticed that the letter o
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NoOp, thank you for your files, I have found the problem. A new, fixed
pdftops is attached.
Everyone, please replace your current pdftops by the one attached here,
test, and report your results.
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Till, printing to the printer via cups. But the PDF print is back to
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/381788/comments/22
When I attempt to select text the cursor fills about 1 1/2 inches
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Same Ubuntu Home page pdf using 'print to file'.
** Attachment added: ubuntuhome_printtofile.pdf
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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 382379 ***
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Sorry, I attached the wrong file. Please use the one attached to this
comment.
** Attachment removed: Fixed Poppler-based pdftops filter
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27722135/pdftops
** Attachment
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 382379 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382379
$ md5sum pdftops
4ff551c15c13a8b64880c2b99dba0cfa pdftops
Works! Both PDF and to the printer via cups. Attached is same Ubuntu
Home page pdf using this pdftops.
Thanks Till, well done!
** Attachment
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 382379 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382379
Thank you very much, please watch out for the new CUPS packages in bug
382379.
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Till! Thank you!
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Anyone who has still problems please attach an error_log. Proceed as
described in the CUPS error_log section of
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems.
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pdftops CUPS filter has several problems
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OK... I'm confused. We've already noted that the patched pdftops file
works to print pdf's, but as a result creates problems in printing to
anything else via cups. Do you want the error log using the patched
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NoOp, I need the error_log for the patched pdftops file. It should
conmtain the log of a job to a usual printer (as this is the case which
fails for you). In addition, I need the PPD file of the failing print
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Here you go. I am attaching a pdf printed with the patched pdftops
(works), error_log, ppd for the printer that works with the original
pdftops, and troubleshoot.txt from attempting to print via the
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On 06/09/2009 02:02 PM, Till Kamppeter wrote:
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NoOp, I need the error_log for the patched pdftops file. It should
Same problem here using Jaunty, pdfs are empty. Using the new pdftops is
no help.
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After wasting way too many hours on this problem, the only result was
that Openoffice stopped printing some text files (while others were no
problem).
In vain, I started deleting all config files, including all .openoffice-
folders in the home dir. Now EVERYTHING including pdfing works again.
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I have attached a Poppler-based pdftops filter now. Can everyone who has
still problems try it?
Note that currently bug 310575 still applies with it, but this will soon
be solved by a Poppler fix
(https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19777, bug 382379).
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It's getting closer... the pdftops printed from gedit now behaves
properly (attached). However the other test, the release notes, is not
rendering many fonts; compare this attached pdf to the one from hardy in
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27282922/job_1351-9_04_Release_Notes___Ubuntu.pdf
Let me
** Attachment added: 9.04 release notes printed using popplar patch
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Can you try the pdftops version attached now? Does it print all text
now?
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Just like in the movies :-) See attached.
Note: gedit pdf print of the pdftops script file worked just fine as
well.
** Attachment added: Improved Till2 9.04 release notes pdf
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Looked through your attachment and did not find anything wrong in it.
Seems that my current version of pdftops solves the bug.
** Changed in: cups (Ubuntu)
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You
Looks good to me as well, thanks for the great work! I'll test with
other applications over the next 1-2 days report back if I encounter
any difficulties. Thanks again Till.
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Till, the pdftops file works with pdf. However, I've discovered that it
borks all of my standard cups printing.
Every time I try to print now I get
errors with a cute little windows like popup asking me if I wish to
'Diagnose' the error: Print Error 'There was a problem processing
document blah,
I was having the same symptoms and discovered the problem was the driver
I had CUPS set to use.
I had setup the cups-pdf printer using the Generic-Postscript printer
driver. The problem with that was that cups was first calling
ghostscript to convert whatever input it received into postscript,
On your Hardy or Intrepid host, open a command line terminal and do:
sudo apt-get install devscripts
dget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/cups-pdf/cups-
pdf_2.5.0-1ubuntu1.dsc
dpkg-source -x cups-pdf_2.5.0-1ubuntu1.dsc
cd cups-pdf-2.5.0
debuild -uc -us
sudo debi
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Under Hardy the build succeeded but installation did fail with a
dependency problem:
dpkg: Vor-Abhängigkeitsproblem betreffend cups-pdf_2.5.0-1ubuntu1_i386.deb,
welches cups-pdf enthält:
cups-pdf hängt (vorher) von cups (= 1.1.15) ab
dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von
Ah yes, the package name change occurred starting at Intrepid. For
Hardy, you'd need to change occurrences of cupsys into cups in the
source package's debian/control under the Pre-Depends section in the
cups-pdf section.
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Actually, noticing how that issue was introduced at Intrepid (which,
IIRC has cups-pdf 2.4.8), trying a recompile of the 2.5.0 package on
Intrepid would be a more immediate test.
Hardy testing could also be useful, but only for extra validation.
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(Hardy)
I made the following change to debian/control:
12,13c12,13
Pre-Depends: cups (= 1.1.15)
Depends: ghostscript, libpaper-utils, cups-client, ${shlibs:Depends},
${misc:Depends}
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Pre-Depends: cupsys (= 1.1.15)
Depends: ghostscript, libpaper-utils, cupsys-client, ${shlibs:Depends},
** Attachment added: Printed with Jaunty + cups_pdf_2.5.0
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Thank you for testing this, Benedikt.
This seems to confirm that the CUPS-PDF 2.5.0 source code is fine, since
the exact same package (minus those Dependencies name changes) compiles
and works fine on older Ubuntu releases.
Given this, I'll reassign both this bug and the upstream Debian bug to
Thanks Benedikt Martin-Éric. I think this is the reason for the issue that
they are also seeing in:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-pdf/+bug/366949
[cups-pdf produces large pdfs and text can not be searched]
Perhaps it might be a good idea to make this a dupe of 366949 or vis a
Can you try the following: Replace the file /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops
by the attached file and make the new file executable (sudo chmod 755
/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops). Then try to print into a PDF with cups-
pdf again. Do you get a searchable PDF now?
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On 05/31/2009 01:11 PM, Till Kamppeter wrote:
Can you try the following: Replace the file /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops
by the attached file and make the new file executable (sudo chmod 755
/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops). Then try to print into a PDF with cups-
pdf again. Do you get a searchable
** Attachment added: Alternative pdftops CUPS filter
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27343167/pdftops
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Works for me. Attached result.
** Attachment added: PDF with Till's pdftops file
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27343523/job_1353-235.pdf
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Dead on! Your pdftops script works, the resulting file is searchable and has
fonts embeded.
I'm confused, though. The original file is a binary, yours a script.
** Attachment added: printed with modified pdftops script
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27343573/235.pdf
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The original binary also does not more than calling Ghostscript for
turning PDF into PostScript. I use a script for the testing to more
quickly apply changes and to allow users to try the changes without
needing to compile. The final result will later be implemented in the
original binary.
The
Thanks Till!
FWIW: I also have a pdf printer set up using:
/usr/share/ghostscript/8.64/lib/ghostpdf.ppd
and the output from that and the default cups-pdf appears to be identical, but
I'll need to do a little more testing first.
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Till, the workaround still has pretty serious issues (font related
perhaps?).
The easiest way to see this is to open your pstops file in gedit and
then print using cups-pdf. In hardy (using Evince or Adobe Reader 9.1.1)
I can easily select any text. In jaunty when I attempt to select text
the
I should add that this doesn't appear to be a result of your test
pdftops script itself. To test I moved the hardy pdftops executable out
of the way and replaced it with your pdftops script file. I then printed
the pdftops from gedit (in hardy) to the cups-pdf printer and looked at
the file in
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #524730
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** Also affects: cups-pdf (Debian) via
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Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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Reliably reproduceable
** Changed in: cups-pdf (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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Can anyone try compiling 2.5.0 against Hardy and see if it works there?
If it works on Hardy, we can immediately rule out CUPS-PDF issues and
presume this to be a CUPS issues, probably in which default filters are
used by CUPS to produce the final document.
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I've a dedicated test system with two drives - one of jaunty and one for
hardy/intrepid/whatever. If you can give me instructions on how to go
about this I'll be happy to give it a go. The hardy/intrepid/whatever
gets reinstalled frequently, so it won't matter if it get messed up in
the process.
** Attachment added: Printed w/cups-pdf using hardy
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27282855/job_1310-9_04_Release_Notes___Ubuntu.pdf
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Printed w/jaunty cups-pdf. Note: open in Document Viewer, Adobe Reader,
etc., and look at the document properties fonts and compare with the
hardy pdf; no fonts in the jaunty pdf.
** Attachment added: Printed w/cups-pdf using jaunty
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