[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#519265: still having problems simply printing plaintext

[Francesco Poli]

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:29:46 -0700 Ivan Kohler wrote:

> Still present in 1.4.1-1.

I've just experienced this bug myself (on testing, cups/1.3.11-1+b1).

> 
> Still fixed by deleting /usr/share/cups/mime/texttopdf.convs and 
> restarting CUPS.

I can confirm that this workaround actually allows me to produce decent
plain text prints.
Thanks a lot to Ivan for sharing this tip with anyone reading the
BTS!  :-)

> 
> It would seem to me that printing plaintext with 80 columns is one of 
> the most basic functions of a printer.  A regression here would seem to 
> be at least a major problem with the usability of the package.  I could 
> print 80 column text reliabily on my Commodore 64 and dot-matrix printer 
> decades ago!  ;)

Agreed...

> 
> May I ask, is there is a reason (other than tuit shortage) this change 
> has not been applied in any of the many uploads of CUPS since the bug 
> was reported?  Is the proposed fix too simplistic for all cases?  Is 
> there something I can do to help?

I am too wondering why fixing this problem is taking so long...

May we have a reply from the Debian CUPS Maintainers, please?


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