Bug 837790

section for the pdf printer in /etc/cups/printers.conf
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<Printer PDF>
UUID urn:uuid:af88cddf-b230-3dcb-6c99-33a1e6a8cf74
Info PDF
MakeModel Generic CUPS-PDF Printer
DeviceURI cups-pdf:/
State Idle
StateTime 1341476143
Type 8450124
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
Option media na_letter_8.5x11in
Option output-bin face-down
Option print-color-mode color
Option print-quality 4
Option printer-resolution 300x300dpi
</Printer>

cups-pdf specific lines in /var/log/cups/error.log:
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W [02/Jul/2012:10:36:40 +0200] failed to find device: cups-PDF
W [03/Jul/2012:07:25:17 +0200] failed to find device: cups-PDF
W [05/Jul/2012:07:05:18 +0200] failed to find device: cups-PDF
W [05/Jul/2012:10:11:05 +0200] failed to find device: cups-PDF
W [05/Jul/2012:10:15:30 +0200] failed to find device: cups-PDF
W [05/Jul/2012:11:41:44 +0200] failed to find device: cups-PDF
W [05/Jul/2012:10:47:28 +0200] failed to find device: cups-PDF
W [05/Jul/2012:10:50:12 +0200] failed to find device: cups-PDF
W [05/Jul/2012:10:52:48 +0200] failed to find device: cups-PDF
W [05/Jul/2012:10:56:06 +0200] failed to find device: cups-PDF
W [05/Jul/2012:11:04:45 +0200] failed to find device: cups-PDF

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Same problem in F19: "lpr -P<pdf-printer> /etc/passwd /etc/group": in the PDF target directory only the printed /etc/passwd appears, but no printout of /etc/group.

Same behaviour in F20.

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Same behaviour in F26

Same behaviour in F27

Same behaviour in F30!

This problem occurs because cups-pdf stops processing input as soon as it sees %%EOF.  A multi-page document created by texttopaps, texttops, or a combination of texttpdf/pdftops has multiple

    %!Adobe-PS-3.0
    ...
    %%EOF

sequences in it (one for each file), so in a multi-file document, only the first file is processed and the rest is thrown out.

Created attachment 1577736 [details]
Possible patch

This patch changes the way PS is read.  Instead of starting with "%!" (but not %!PS-AdobeFont") and ending at "%%EOF", it reads the entire input file, but only copies to the output those lines between "%!" and "%%EOF".  It also looks for "^D%!" as a beginning-of-document marker because the CUPS filters don't remove the EOF marker when concatenating PS files together and don't insert a newline after the EOF marker, so it ends up on the same line as the beginning of the next PS document, like:

  %!PS-Adobe-3.0
  ...
  %%EOF
  ^D%!PS-Adobe-3.0

Quick tests in Fedora 28 confirm that I can now run:

    lp -d cups-pdf /etc/fstab /etc/fstab /etc/fstab /etc/fstab

and a single four-page PDF document is created.

I've also sent a message to Volker asking for inclusion of the patch upstream.

Typo: use "mutilated" instead of "multilated"

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Same behaviour in F33.

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Yes,I can reproduce this issue in fc33 as (see coment #15).