On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 09:48:03PM -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> Joerg Dorchain wrote:
> > I was printing pdf file directly before, with the help of
> > foomatic-filters. As this works as well, I suggest to replace the
> > dependency on xpdf-utils by xpdf-utils | foomatic-filters in order to
> > have pdf printing working.
>
> Hmm, it looks you're lucky :-)
>
> As far as I view, almost drivers in foomatic-filter couldn't print PDF
> directly but called pdftops internally.
>
> Here is my result.
>
> D [10/Jan/2005:14:02:39 +0900] start_process("/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops",
> 0xbffefc40, 0xbffeefb0, 9, 11, 8)
> I [10/Jan/2005:14:02:39 +0900] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops
> (PID 11155) for job 188.
> D [10/Jan/2005:14:02:39 +0900] StartJob: filter =
> "/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops"
> D [10/Jan/2005:14:02:39 +0900] StartJob: filterfds[1] = [ 9 12 ]
> D [10/Jan/2005:14:02:39 +0900] start_process("/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops",
> 0xbffefc40, 0xbffeefb0, 10, 12, 8)
> I [10/Jan/2005:14:02:39 +0900] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops
> (PID 11156) for job 188.
> D [10/Jan/2005:14:02:39 +0900] StartJob: filter =
> "/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip"Hm, two questions remain to me: - What was the filter chain for pdf files before this package version? - Would it be an idea to use the gs-esp package to handle pdf? If so, can you please consider it a wishlist? (I am kind of minimalist when it comes the packages ;-) TIA, Joerg
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