Cannot print Tif from Gimp (through CUPS)

[Åsmund Hjulstad]

Printing tif (2904x2123 pixels) fails. I opened the same tif in document viewer, and it printed a small image in the lower left corner of the page (about 1/6th of full page size).

Attached is error_log from cups, with debug enabled. Ghostscript dies with the following message (from error_log). The attached log shows two print attempts, one successfull (from document viewer) one unsuccessfull (from gimp).

D [30/Dec/2008:10:45:38 +0100] [Job 44] Error: /limitcheck in --array--
D [30/Dec/2008:10:45:38 +0100] [Job 44] Operand stack:
D [30/Dec/2008:10:45:38 +0100] [Job 44] 76805
D [30/Dec/2008:10:45:38 +0100] [Job 44] Execution stack:
D [30/Dec/2008:10:45:38 +0100] [Job 44] %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1905 1 3 %oparray_pop 1904 1 3 %oparray_pop 1888 1 3 %oparray_pop 1771 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval--
D [30/Dec/2008:10:45:38 +0100] [Job 44] Dictionary stack:
D [30/Dec/2008:10:45:38 +0100] [Job 44] --dict:1162/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:99/200(L)-- --dict:66/75(L)--

I am running 9.04 Ubuntu fresh from repository. (AMD64)

[Alex Cherepanov (alex-cherepanov)]

Ghostscript receives invalid PS file from gimp. Arrays in PostScript are limited to 64K-1 elements.
I've seen this bug before. Please check whether it's fixed in the latest gimp.

[Quigi (brechbuehler)]

I got this (on a Brother MFC 8840DN, but same issue): invalid PS file from gimp causes error limitcheck in command array; operand 72947.

This happened with Gimp 2.4.5 (2.4.5-1ubuntu2). On your suggestion I upgraded to the latest, 2.6.1-1ubuntu3. Same error.

[Ted (tedks)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. If you could test the current Ubuntu development version, this would help us a lot. If you can test it, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could upload updated logs by running apport-collect 312398, and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[Simeon Lodge (serpent)]

I can confirm that I have exactly the the same type of problem, and that it is limited to images printed from The Gimp (I can print the exact same image from Geeqie). The error reports from my printer begin:

ERROR: limitcheck
OFFENDING COMMAND: image

STACK:

... then a bunch of gibberish no doubt indicating the contents of the stack in this particular case.

I'm using a 3.2Mb color PNG file, which I'm attempting to print from GIMP 2.6.8 on Lucid. The printer is a Fuji-Xerox C1110 with postscript 3 support. As previously stated, this problem only happens with the Gimp. Alex's remarks have the ring of truth about them, I'd hate to see this issue lost in red tape.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Oneiric Ocelot. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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