Please test the current Karmic, especially regarding the problems mentioned below. They all should have gone. Please report your success and/or problems here.
Confirmed that the Poppler-based pdftops CUPS filter fixes the following bugs: bug 377011: Cannot print documents to Laserjet 4350, via network bug 362186: Spurious lines on print outs bug 289852: intrepid: printing very slow (at least partially) bug 381788: [jaunty] cups-pdf no longer embeds fonts in pdf file bug 372166: No output when printing in Ubuntu 9.04 bug 361772: black squares appearing instead of some letters when printing This I have fixed in Poppler: bug 335397: Poppler's pdftops fails to convert a PDF file to PostScript This I have fixed/worked around by patching the pdftops CUPS filter to never let Poppler generate PostScript level 3: bug 277404: hp laserjet postscript text print does not print some characters This does not need to be done any more, I have fixed Poppler appropriately: bug 329991: Poppler's pdftops does not support multiple-page-size output, use Ghostscript for the CUPS filter instead For this bug I have no information about its current state, neither whether any GhostScript-based pdftops filter solves it nor whether the new Poppler-based one or any change in Poppler fixes it. Please test. bug 293832: (Brother PostScript) printer prints page at wrong position, page cut Please check also: bug 310575: A3 pdf file is cropped and printed on A4 paper bug 310854: Printing Photos with Canon original drivers stopped working in Intrepid -- pdftops CUPS filter has several problems https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382379 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs