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

[Bin Guo]

Hi Volker,

  I did try "lpr tiger.eps" on two debian system, still one working and
the other (laptop) empty (with similar logs). While playing with the
laptop, I recreated the PDF printer and now it works!

  Luckily I have another debian system that's having the problem, and
attached are the /etc/cups/printers.conf from bad(empty) debian and my
now good laptop. Was it the application/vnd.cups-pdf line causing
problem?

-- 
Bin

On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 12:46 +0100, Volker Behr wrote:
> >From the log of the empty page you can see that there was no title found
> within the original PS file that was sent (by iceweasel) to the printer.
> In the good case there was. So the input obviously differed. Since there
> was no PS-title in the first case, perhaps there was more information in
> the file missing so the PDF could not be created.
> There are two possible culprits I can think of: iceweasel itelf and
> CUPS/the PPD used. Please make double-sure those are absolutely
> identical (same version, same revision, same built).
> The best test for the printing system would be to just print two
> identical files (e.g. the tiger.eps from Ghostscript's examples) via
> commandline to the PDF-printer (to avoid any additional interaction by
> other programs that might decide to modify the input).
> 
> Regards,
> Volker
> 
> 

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# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.4.6
# Written by cupsd
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE WHEN CUPSD IS RUNNING
<DefaultPrinter PDF>
Info CUPS PDF Printer
Location athlon64x2
MakeModel Generic CUPS-PDF Printer
DeviceURI cups-pdf:/
State Idle
StateTime 1300507712
Type 8450124
Filter application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -
Filter application/vnd.cups-pdf 0 -
Filter application/vnd.cups-postscript 100 -
Accepting Yes
Shared No
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>
-------------- next part --------------
# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.4.6
# Written by cupsd
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE WHEN CUPSD IS RUNNING
<DefaultPrinter PDF>
Info PDF
Location localhost
MakeModel Generic CUPS-PDF Printer
DeviceURI cups-pdf:/
State Idle
StateTime 1300507467
Type 8450124
Product (CUPS v1.1)
Filter application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -
Filter application/vnd.cups-command 0 commandtops
Filter application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 -
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>