Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 58319
RH7.2 does not print *certain* PostScript files
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:01 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.0.2 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20011226 Description of problem: I have already configured printing on 3 different computers, with 3 different printers, with RH 7.2 (see below for details). The tests on printconf-gui work, including the A4 PostScript testpage. In fact, many PostScript files print correctly. But I found one that doesn't. I'm attaching it below, with the lpq.0 log file. BTW, the original is a pdf file (converted to PostScript with acrobat reader for Linux) at http://www.jnto.go.jp/english/interests/b/b3a.pdf (the attached PostScript file has only page one of the pdf file). It might seem to be a ghostscript problem, however ghostscript processes it correctly. First, I can see it on the screen (with gv or ggv). And second, if I run the command in the log file, sending the output straight to the printer device (or sending the output to a file, then the file to the printer device) it prints correctly! So apparently it's not a bug in ghostscript itself. (I thought that it was the setpagedevice prepending on foomatic, but I took it out in the perl script but I still had the same problem. BTW, the problem might not be in foomatic). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): foomatic-1.1-0.20011018.7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to print the attached PostScript file. 2. run the command in the log file by hand (e.g., "gs -q -dBATCH -dSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=hpijs -dPrintMode=1 -r300x300 -sDeviceName=DJ9xx -sOutputFile=outputfile -- test.ps"), and send outputfile straight to the printer device (e.g., cat outputfile > /dev/usb/lp0). Actual Results: An error in the printing log file, and no output on the printer. Expected Results: The file being printed. Additional info: - System 1 has an HP DeskJet 970Cxi (hpijs driver) connected to USB - System 2 has an Epson LP-9200SX (escpage driver) connected to the network - System 3 has a HP LaserJet 6L (ljet4 driver) connected to the parallel port All three show the same problem.
Created attachment 42374 [details] PostScript file that is not getting printed
Created attachment 42375 [details] lpq.0 log file (error message) on system 1
Thanks for reporting it. I see the same thing here.
Shall we see ghostscript 6.52? I totally suspect that 6.51-16 is 6.52. If not, maybe the fix is there?
See above, 'So apparently it's not a bug in ghostscript itself.'
Does this still fail with the updates applied?
Oh, wait, it still fails for me here (got my files mixed up). This seems to be due to the DCA copyright stuff. For some reason, 'gs ... - < test.ps' fails but 'gs ... test.ps' works. I don't know why that might be.
More bizarre: 'gs ... /dev/fd/0 < test.ps' works!
This can be sorted out in foomatic just by calling gs in a different way. Fixed package built as foomatic-1.1-0.20020130.10.