[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#625925: Uses incorrect path to default colour profile

[Roger Leigh]

forwarded 625925 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3299815&group_id=1537&atid=101537
thanks

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 03:02:53AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-05-07 at 10:54 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 05:17:58AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > Printing to my HP LaserJet 4Plus currently fails.  The error message
> > > for the job is:
> > > 
> > > File '/System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/sRGB Profile.icc' not found
> > > 
> > > This path is presumably correct for OS X but obviously not for Linux!
> > > It is present in the /usr/lib/cups/driver/gutenprint.5.2 binary.
> > 
> > This path is unconditionally put into generated PPD files by genppd.c:
> This seems like a big problem, since cups recommends gutenprint over
> foomatic (and I found the latter does work for me).

Forwarded upstream.  In the interim we can patch out that block of
code.

> (Also, the situation of multiple drivers for the same hardware is just
> as confusing with printers as it is with graphics or wireless cards...)

Yes.  There are multiple drivers provided by gutenprint.  For example,
all the Foomatic drivers are using ijsgutenprint, entirely redundantly
since the cups-driver-gutenprint package does exactly the same thing,
but natively.  They are only really useful for LPRng, AFAIK.  Foomatic
is essentially a "meta-driver", it doesn't provide any drivers itself;
it's just (extremely hairy and complicated) glue.

> I upgraded cups more recently (2011-03-19) than gutenprint (2010-08-17).
> I might not have tried printing since March.
> 
> cups seems to have recently (version 1.4.5-3) got a new PDF rasteriser
> which certainly appears to use ICC profile information from the PPD.

OK, that makes sense.  It's probably been buggy for years, but the
information wasn't used until very recently.


Thanks,
Roger

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