[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#673289: Bug#670055: cups-filters: diff for version 1.0.18-2 uploaded to DELAYED/2 for #670055

[Tobias Hoffmann]

Paul Menzel wrote:
> No it is not. I can no longer reproduce it.
>
>         lpr -PCUPS-PDF-Printer /tmp/test.txt
>
> and
>
>         CHARSET=utf-8 /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf 1 user title 1 "PageSize=A4" test.txt > out.pdf
>
> work fine.
>
> As a side not Evince has problems displaying the output from CUPS-PDF.
>   
Does this mean the Evince problem also exists with out.pdf from above?

> The text is not readable. Xpdf displays everything correctly though.
I can't reproduce that here; but for some reason my PDF-queue will treat 
text files as PS and invoke gs for PS->PDF conversion, which will result 
in an empty PDF even in xpdf. OTOH out.pdf from texttopdf (using 
FreeMono font) displays fine with xpdf and evince-gtk (3.2.1-1+b1) here.

> So that issue is a separate bug in Evince I guess.
>   
Might well be. What is known not to work is extracting text (i.e. 
pdftotext) from PDFs generated by texttopdf (there are some exceptions, 
thought).

  Tobias