From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-12 i686) Description of problem: I'm excited that my ALPS MD1300 is at last getting some Linux support. Alas there are problems. http://web.mit.edu/wdc/www/homepage-dither.PS is a 17K PostScript file that demonstrates a bug in the Steinberger 32bpp dithering as implemented in the md2k filter and used to drive an ALPS MD1300 printer. If you set "Simple Color(4bpp)" this file prints fine. (It's the latter portion of my home page rendered by Mozilla.) If you set "Steinb. High Qual (32bpp) only the Magenta layer prints onto the page. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. fetch the postscript file 2. set Steinberger 32bpp mode 3. Print this file on your ALPS MD1300 4. set 4bpp simple mode 5. Print this flie on your ALPS MD1300 6. Notice the difference. Actual Results: Only the Magenta printed. No black! Expected Results: Proper rendering of the page, including the text in black. Additional info:
Could you please attach the file so that there is a permanent record? Thanks. (I have let the md2k maintainer know.)
Created attachment 47661 [details] File that demonstrates the bug.
Thanks.
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I think I gave that printer away a couple years ago. I would say that sweeping through and closing all the bugs that really are NOT going to get addressed is a good step forward to focusing on answering bugs in a timely manner. I agree that you should CLOSE as WONTFIX, and I hope that other bugs opened in the future will be resolved more quickly. I think we should have done this with the bug 3 years ago. Unfortunately, at that time we didn't know that the ALPS 1300 would fail to become an interesting printer, or that there'd be a protracted lack of developer interest. -Bill Cattey Linux Platform Coordinator at MIT and Red Hat stockholder