DefaultSendFF does not work properly in CUPS with textonly printers
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cups (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Low
|
Till Kamppeter |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: cups
Tested with CUPS 1.3.9-17ubuntu3.2 on Jaunty.
When using a text-only printer (like a dot-matrix) it is sometimes desirable to have the printer automatically do a form-feed at the end of each job so it advances to the next page. This is accomplished by setting the DefaultSendFF field to True in the PPD file. However, this does not work properly. The textonly filter (/usr/lib/
Diff:
--- textonly 2009-07-04 19:56:40.000000000 -0500
+++ textonly.orig 2009-07-04 19:56:18.000000000 -0500
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
if [ "$SENDFF" == "True" ]
then
- echo -ne \\014
+ echo -ne \\14
fi
COPIES=
Fixed in the CUPS BZR repository at Debian, so the fix will appear in Karmic with the next CUPS upload.