Bug 192809 - pstops bug with PageSetup options
Summary: pstops bug with PageSetup options
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: cups
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tim Waugh
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Blocks: FC6Target
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-05-23 10:59 UTC by Anton Guda
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
0 users

Fixed In Version: 1.2.1-1.7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-06-20 09:48:45 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
generated PDD file (20.26 KB, text/plain)
2006-05-23 10:59 UTC, Anton Guda
no flags Details
log from foomatic-rip (4.89 KB, text/plain)
2006-05-26 15:12 UTC, Anton Guda
no flags Details
Postscript file in /tmp (13.68 KB, text/plain)
2006-05-26 15:13 UTC, Anton Guda
no flags Details

Description Anton Guda 2006-05-23 10:59:54 UTC
Description of problem:
PPD file generated by system-config-printer or 
by CUPS inself for HP Lasejet 5P (6L, 4) have entries for halftoning.
It realy changes in PPD file (*Default...),
if changed ny UI.
But in printout nothing changes.
Moreover: if intercept PS to file
(by using *FoomaticRIPCommandLine: "cat > /tmp/test.ps" )
no entries of PS code, corresponding to halftones and some other
things (like pagesize) detected.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
system-config-printer-0.7.8-1
cups-1.2.0-6
foomatic-3.0.2-35.bcx (added more halftones for better diagnostic).

How reproducible:
Always.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Setup any printer with ljet4 foomatic driver (recomended).
2. Change halftone
3. Print any page with gray areas.

  
Actual results:
The same printout with different halftones.

Expected results:
CUPS must insert PS codes for entries from PPD file,
so output must be different with different halftones.

Additional info:
It seems, that not only halftone options is broken,
but any with PS code.

Comment 1 Anton Guda 2006-05-23 10:59:54 UTC
Created attachment 129849 [details]
generated PDD file

Comment 2 Anton Guda 2006-05-23 12:37:06 UTC
Tested with cups-1.2.1-2 : same result.

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2006-05-24 17:09:45 UTC
> Moreover: if intercept PS to file
> (by using *FoomaticRIPCommandLine: "cat > /tmp/test.ps" )
> no entries of PS code, corresponding to halftones and some other
> things (like pagesize) detected.

If you intercept the PostScript like that, it's no wonder -- foomatic-rip is the
program that adds those bits of PostScript in! :-)

Instead, please edit /etc/foomatic/filter.conf and add the line:

debug: 1

Then you will find a /tmp/foomatic-rip.ps which is the PostScript with PPD
additions.

Do you still see no PPD PostScript snippets in the generated PostScript?

Comment 4 Anton Guda 2006-05-26 15:12:07 UTC
Created attachment 130026 [details]
log from foomatic-rip

Comment 5 Anton Guda 2006-05-26 15:13:18 UTC
Created attachment 130027 [details]
Postscript file in /tmp

Comment 6 Anton Guda 2006-05-26 15:20:38 UTC
Tested: the same results (ps and log attached).
All postscript as in previos test,
as foomatic-rip calls *FoomaticRIPCommandLine
after inserting features.
As seen in log and PS, code for "resolution=600dpi"
inserted, but code for halftoning - not.
Log shows, that section about halftoning detected in PPD,
but no more.

Some more minor error:
foomatic-rip set bad locale for external programs
(gs eat it, but perl complains).


Comment 7 Tim Waugh 2006-06-01 13:30:26 UTC
The difference between the halftoning algorithm option and the resolution option
is that they go into different setup sections.  The PageSetup section is missing
its options.

This is a pstops bug; the 1.1.23 CUPS pstops filter works fine.

I'll report it upstream.

Comment 8 Tim Waugh 2006-06-01 13:34:14 UTC
Reported upstream:

  http://cups.org/str.php?L1740


Comment 9 Tim Waugh 2006-06-02 14:36:54 UTC
Should be fixed in 1.2.1-1.4, available currently at:

  http://people.redhat.com/twaugh/tmp/cups-fc5/


Comment 10 Anton Guda 2006-06-03 10:24:38 UTC
Tested 1.2.1-1.4: works fine!
I suppose we can close this bug.

P.S. Do you need path for foomatic for more halftones?


Comment 11 Tim Waugh 2006-06-08 10:51:36 UTC
Please verify that the problem remains fixed with this new test update:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192809

You should be able to fetch it using this command, as root:

  yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update 'cups*'

Thanks.

Comment 12 Tim Waugh 2006-06-20 09:48:45 UTC
Anyway, works here.


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