[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#462457: cupsys: pdftops not ready for acrobat 8.1.1

Christophe Troestler Christophe.Troestler at umh.ac.be
Thu Jan 24 23:11:00 UTC 2008


Package: cupsys
Version: 1.3.5-1
Severity: normal

In view of bugs #462433, #457810, #460624 and the shortcomings with
pdftops of xpdf-utils (I tested and it does not convert properly PDF
files with images), I tried to activate the use of acroread.

I modified /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops so that lines 94 and 95 read

$acroread_path = "/usr/local/bin/acroread"; # path to Adobe Reader
$default_app = 'use-acroread';

That is not enough however, line 324 must read

		$rc = system ("$acroread_path $cmdopt -pairs $pdffile -");

(the "<" should be supported according to the doc but actually
acroread segfaults with it!).  However that still does not work
reliably (I guess because acroread tries to write the file "-" in
addition to sending the output to stdout!!).  So something following
the lines of

	    my $tmpfile = tmpnam();
	    $rc = system ("$acroread_path $cmdopt -pairs $pdffile $tmpfile");
	    system("cat $tmpfile");
	    unlink "$tmpfile";

is actually required... (then line 98 must also be changed into “use
File::Temp qw( tempfile tmpnam );”).  [The $tmpfile is not safely
created but that sould not matter too much because it is created in
“/var/spool/cups/tmp/” with mode “-rw------- 1 lp lp”.]

Regards,
ChriS

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.14 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser               3.105              add and remove users and groups
ii  cupsys-common         1.3.5-1            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.18             Debian configuration management sy
ii  gs-esp                8.15.3.dfsg.1-1    The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii  libavahi-compat-libdn 0.6.22-2           Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility 
ii  libc6                 2.7-6              GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsimage2         1.3.5-1            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2            1.3.5-1            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3           1.1.2-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgnutls13           2.0.4-1            the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libkrb53              1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap2              2.1.30.dfsg-13.5   OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g              0.99.7.1-5         Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1             1.1.23             library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1               1.2.1-7.1          OpenSLP libraries
ii  lsb-base              3.1-24             Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  perl-modules          5.8.8-12           Core Perl modules
ii  procps                1:3.2.7-5          /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert              1.0.14             Simple debconf wrapper for openssl
ii  xpdf-utils [poppler-u 3.02-1.3           Portable Document Format (PDF) sui

Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
pn  avahi-utils           <none>             (no description available)
ii  cupsys-client         1.3.5-1            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters      3.0.2-20061031-1.2 linuxprinting.org printer support 
ii  smbclient             3.0.28-2           a LanManager-like simple client fo

-- debconf information:
  cupsys/raw-print: true
  cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, scsi, serial, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd





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