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cups package

Poppler's pdftops does not support multiple-page-size output, use Ghostscript for the CUPS filter instead

Bug #329991 reported by Till Kamppeter
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
cups (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Medium
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: cups

See

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19777

and also the discussion on bug 310575.

The pdftops filter of CUPS needs to be built so that it uses Ghostscript. Ghostscript handles documents with different page sizes correctly.

Note that CUPS needs "ghostscript"added to BuildDepends and Depends then.

Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)
Changed in cups:
assignee: nobody → pitti
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in cups:
status: Triaged → In Progress
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

It seems that some filters in debian/local/pdf-filters/ still use poppler; that would mean that we'd get a mix of poppler and ghostscript?

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

r620

Changed in cups:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package cups - 1.3.9-14

---------------
cups (1.3.9-14) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/pdftops-cups-1.4.dpatch: Revert previous change to
    define HAVE_PDFTOPS and CUPS_PDFTOPS, since Till says the filter
    should actually use ghostscript now. Add ghostscript build
    dependency instead. (LP: #329991)
  * Add drop_unnecessary_dependencies.dpatch: Do not link libcups.so
    and libcupsimage.so against unnecessary libraries. This avoids
    unnecessary package dependencies for both libcups, as well as for
    packages using cups-config. (Closes: #438067)
  * debian/control: Drop XSBC-Original-Maintainer Ubuntu-ism which
    accidentally crept in in r607.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:05:21 +0100

Changed in cups:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

The Ghostscript-based pdftops filter has caused a lot of problems. Therefore we return to Poppler now, but we have fixed Poppler to solve this problem. See bug 382379.

Changed in cups (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → Won't Fix
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