Ubuntu
cups-pdf package

Page rotation broken in 2.5.1 (work in 2.5.0)

Bug #798036 reported by jpka
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cups-pdf (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: cups-pdf

Hi! After upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04, selection of page rotation in Printers - My Cups-Pdf printer - Properties - Job options - Orientation, no more work:
1. When I select 180 deg rotation, i get not rotated PDF. (please see attachment #1)
2. When I print one document which has pages with different quantity of vertical and horizontal words/chars, i get PDF with randomly oriented (portrait/landscape) pages. Looks like some artificial intelligence was added.
I compare to my Ubuntu 10.10 and find that all works normally in cups-pdf 2.5.0-16 . (please see attachment #2)
To ensure it, i downgrade in my Ubuntu 11.04, cups-pdf (2.5.1-2) to cups-pdf (2.5.0-16) and all work now as before.
Thanks.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: cups-pdf 2.5.0-16
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jun 16 10:20:53 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
Lpstat:
 device for Canon-iR2018-UFRII-LT: lpd://172.16.3.155/PASSTHRU
 device for Generic-CUPS-PDF-Printer: cups-pdf:/
Papersize: letter
PpdFiles:
 Canon-iR2018-UFRII-LT: Canon iR2018 UFRII LT ver.2.1
 Generic-CUPS-PDF-Printer: Generic CUPS-PDF Printer
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: cups-pdf
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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jpka (jopka) wrote :
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jpka (jopka) wrote :
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Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk) wrote :

Have you tried purging the old package and reinstalling it, rather than just upgrading? Does it fix it?

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jpka (jopka) wrote :

No.
Installing cups-pdf (2.5.1-2) in any case gives this bug, either if i install it as uprgade to cups-pdf (2.5.0-16), as reinstall of itself, or as remove and then clean install.
After each step i delete my virtual printer, then add it again.
The only solution i find is to use old version of cups-pdf (2.5.0-16): i remove current cups-pdf and then install old cups-pdf (2.5.0-16) manually.
Thanks

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Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk) wrote :

Accepted cups-pdf into lucid-proposed, maverick-proposed and natty-proposed. The package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)
Changed in cups-pdf (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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jpka (jopka) wrote :

Hi! I'm sorry for delayed answer, it's due to openprinting.org's site was down and i'm was unable to download needed packages. So i now enable proposed packages and test it. But unfortunately i found that bug was still not fixed. It now have version 'cups-pdf (2.5.1-7)'. I also reproduce this bug on other machine. It is very easy to reproduce: go to Job options of your Pdf printer, select 180 deg rotation and see that result is not rotated. Again, only known solution for me is use 'cups-pdf 2.5.0-16' package.
Thank you!

Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)
Changed in cups-pdf (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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jpka (jopka) wrote :

Still not fixed in 'Version: 2.6.1-6'.
Thanks

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jpka (jopka) wrote :

I found the solution, and test it also in versions 2.6.1-6, and in Ubuntu 12.10 (2.6.1-7).
 $ sudo gedit /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf
then replace:
 # GSCall .........
to: (uncomment line & remove '-dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage' key)
 GSCall %s -q -dCompatibilityLevel=%s -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="%s" -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -c .setpdfwrite -f %s

(Don't know what exactly it does, just result of trial-and-error tests. Use with caution in production machines.)

Adam Collard (adam-collard)
tags: removed: landscape
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jpka (jopka) wrote :

Still not fixed in Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS.
cups-pdf 2.6.1-9
Thanks.

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Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk) wrote :

Does this issue still affect cups-pdf 3.0.1 packages?

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Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk) wrote :

This concerns an Ubuntu release that is 10 year old. Closing. Feel free to re-open if the issue still exists.

Changed in cups-pdf (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
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