[hardy] filters not working correctly, causing print jobs to fail

[Michael R. Head]

Binary package hint: ghostscript

I turned on debug level logging after realizing that my jobs weren't being printed correctly. Here's what I found. It looks like pdftops (and pstops for jobs that call that) are failing because they're not being called right.

E [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] pdftops-options: -cfg /etc/cups/pdftops.conf
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event...
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] pdftops version 3.00
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] Copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] Usage: pdftops [options] <PDF-file> [<PS-file>]
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -f <int> : first page to print
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -l <int> : last page to print
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -level1 : generate Level 1 PostScript
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -level1sep : generate Level 1 separable PostScript
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -level2 : generate Level 2 PostScript
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -level2sep : generate Level 2 separable PostScript
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -level3 : generate Level 3 PostScript
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -level3sep : generate Level 3 separable PostScript
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -eps : generate Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -form : generate a PostScript form
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -opi : generate OPI comments
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -noembt1 : don't embed Type 1 fonts
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -noembtt : don't embed TrueType fonts
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -noembcidps : don't embed CID PostScript fonts
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -noembcidtt : don't embed CID TrueType fonts
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -preload : preload images and forms
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -paper <string> : paper size (letter, legal, A4, A3, match)
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -paperw <int> : paper width, in points
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -paperh <int> : paper height, in points
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -nocrop : don't crop pages to CropBox
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -expand : expand pages smaller than the paper size
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -noshrink : don't shrink pages larger than the paper size
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -nocenter : don't center pages smaller than the paper size
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -duplex : enable duplex printing
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -opw <string> : owner password (for encrypted files)
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -upw <string> : user password (for encrypted files)
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -q : don't print any messages or errors
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -v : print copyright and version info
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -h : print usage information
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -help : print usage information
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] --help : print usage information
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] -? : print usage information
E [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] /usr/bin/pdftops exited with exit code 1
D [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event...
E [24/Feb/2008:21:20:40 -0500] [Job 855] Empty print file!

[Michael R. Head (burner)]

Unsure if this is a ghostscript problem or a cupsys problem (or could be a poppler problem?)

Could be related to this debian bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=457810

[Michael R. Head (burner)]

Installing xpdf-utils seems to workaround this.