I've got pretty current Raw Hide installed, e.g., foomatic-3.0.0-9. If I generate a ppd file for my Deskjet 5550 using the hpijs driver, then copy that PPD file over to a Mac running MacOS 9 to be used with the Adobe PS driver to generate PostScript, the resulting PostScript is displayed as Legal in "gv", but when I print it, ghostscript apparently treats the paper size as 8.5x11 and thus truncates the top 3 inches of the printout. When I examine the PPD file, I see that it has no /setpagedevice directives to set the paper size when non-default paper sizes are selected. I imagine that this is the problem, because when I use other ppd files which do contain setpagedevice commands, the hard copy fills the whole 8.5x14 page as it should.
foomatic-3.0.0-11 has lots of bug fixes since 3.0.0-9. When that shows up in rawhide I'd be interested to know if this problem persists.
This is still broken in foomatic-3.0.0-12. PPD files generated with the hpijs driver do not have setpagedevice commands in them. In contrast, PPD files generated with the ljet4 driver do.
Is this the same as bug #114191?
Nope, different bug. This bug is about the fact that since the PPD generated by foomatic doesn't have the correct setpagedevice commands in it, anything which uses that PPD to print is going to generate incorrect PostScript. The other bug about the fact is that hpijs doesn't set the paper size properly at the PCL level even when the PostScript has the correct setpagedevice command in it.
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Still broken.
> If I generate a ppd file for my Deskjet 5550 using the hpijs driver, > then copy that PPD file over to a Mac running MacOS 9 to be used with > the Adobe PS driver to generate PostScript, This is the problem. The PPD is for the hpijs driver, not for PostScript. Why not use a PostScript PPD?