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  1. Bug #288570
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 288570

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote : Re: Cups eats all hard drive space and print errors when using photo quality

I could reproduce the bug. Ghostscript indeed makes too big temporary files when feeding it with the print job output (PDF) of eog or GIMP and choosing a resolution of 1200 dpi. PDF files of other apps are OK. This is not a bug of GTK, as the PDFs generated by GTK (the toolkit eog and GIMP are based on) can be displayed on the screen without problems, using Adobe Reader or Ghostscript. It is also not a problem of HPLIP, as the same problem occurs when using Ghostscript's built-in "lj5gray" driver with 1200 dpi (PCL-XL raster driver). This is a bug of Ghostscript.

To reproduce, take the attache PDF file and execute the following Ghostscript command lines:

gs -dFirstPage=1 -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=lj5gray -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=842 -dDuplex=false -r600 -sOutputFile=- eog.pdf > output

gs -dFirstPage=1 -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ijs -sIjsServer=hpijs -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=842 -sDeviceManufacturer="HEWLETT-PACKARD" -sDeviceModel="deskjet 5550" -dDuplex=false -r1200 -sIjsParams=Quality:Quality=3,Quality:ColorMode=2,Quality:MediaType=2,Quality:PenSet=2,Quality:FullBleed=1,PS:MediaPosition=7 -dIjsUseOutputFD -sOutputFile=- eog.pdf > output

Note that if you have really plenty of disk space (for /tmp) it is possible that the commands finish successfully.