[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#348061: cupsys: pdftops conversion fails on
transparency in PDF-files
Peter Griffin
petrgriffin at googlemail.com
Sat Jan 14 14:17:22 UTC 2006
Package: cupsys
Version: 1.1.23-12
Severity: important
When printing PDF files with transparent object, the transparency is
broken due to the pdftops conversion in the cups printing process.
To add some detail, I am printing from a Mac OS X client to a Debian
Cups-server via the automatic printer detection. The PDF File seems to
be passed to the cups-server, which converts the PDF-file to PS by
utilizing xdpf-utils's pdftops. Although, xdpf is able to process
transparency since version 3.01 and does display the pdf file
correctly, pdftops fails.
I wasn't quite sure to where to report this bug (xpf-utils?). But, I
decided to send it to cupsys because the error affects my cups
printserver.
By the way, pdf2ps and acroread -toPostScript process correct PS-files
retaining the transparency.
Files presenting the problem can be found here:
http://esme.homelinux.org/files/cups-transparency/
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-2-k7
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii adduser 3.80 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.66 Debian configuration management sy
ii gs-esp 8.15.1.dfsg.1-1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii libc6 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcupsimage2 1.1.23-12 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsys2 1.1.23-12 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libgnutls12 1.2.9-2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libpam0g 0.79-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpaper1 1.1.14-3 Library for handling paper charact
ii libslp1 1.2.1-5 OpenSLP libraries
ii patch 2.5.9-2 Apply a diff file to an original
ii perl-modules 5.8.7-10 Core Perl modules
ii procps 1:3.2.5-1 /proc file system utilities
ii xpdf-utils 3.01-5 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii cupsys-client 1.1.23-12 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20050720-1 linuxprinting.org printer support
ii smbclient 3.0.21a-1 a LanManager-like simple client fo
-- debconf information:
cupsys/raw-print: true
cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb
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