[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#617468: Bug#617468: My cups-pdf is also producing blank pages, downgraded to 2.5.0-16 works

[Volker Behr]

On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 15:27 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> 2011/3/16 Bin Guo <gb2312 at comcast.net>:
> > On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 18:35 +0100, Volker Behr wrote:
> >> Just as a hint from upstream: you might want to have a look
> >> at /var/log/cups/cups-pdf_log with LogType set to 7
> >> in /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf.
> >> I myself have no current Debian available for testing at the moment.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Volker
> >
> > This is frustrating: while downgraded cups-pdf works, I have
> > another debian system that works fine. No idea what changed,
> > but on my laptop definitely only 2.5.0-16 works.
> >
> > Logs:
> > cups-pdf_log-2.5.0-16-good (downgraded and working on my laptop)
> > cups-pdf_log-2.5.1-1-empty (upgraded but empty on my laptop)
> > cups-pdf_log-2.5.1-1-good (upgraded but working on another debian)
> 
> This is confusing, because the exact same 2.5.1-1 somehow works on
> another one of your hosts. I wonder why.
> 
> Volker: can you spot anything in those logs that I might have missed?
> 
> Martin-Éric

Comparing the logs for the two installations of 2.5.1 it seems the files
printed in either case are not identical and/or not printed the same
way, so it is hard to discern what differences in the log are due to
what differences in the setup (e.g., in one case, there is a PS title
found, in the other it is not).

It would be good to have the log for one empty PDF and one good PDF
using 2.5.1 (and, of course, identical versions of CUPS and GhostScipt -
chack that in any case!), both using identical cups-pdf.conf-settings,
identical PPDs, identical printing commands and identical input files.

Regards,
Volker