Fixed in upstream BZR repo of cups-filters, rev. 7069. Now generally PS level 3 is sent if the PPD identifies the printer as PS level 3. There is an exception rule of HP's lasers getting PS level 2 in such a case.
Till On 06/21/2013 08:22 AM, cl...@jhcloos.com wrote: > Package: cups-filters > Version: 1.0.34-3 > Severity: important > Tags: upstream > > [Bastien asked me to report this an an important bug. -JimC] > > Revision 6868 of upstream cups-filters bzr introduced code to prevent pdftops > from generating level3 postscript. Ever. > > Ubuntu bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277404 > and poppler bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19640 > > are referenced in the commit. > > Certain HP printers were unable to handle the level3 postscript > generated by poppler’s (and probably xpdf’s) pdftops(1), which can be > used by the cups-filters pdftops filter. The problem seems to be > specific to CID-keyed fonts. > > HP refused to change their PPDs, which advertize level3 support, on > the grounds that the level3 ps generated by apple’s osx worked fine. > > cups-filters should not limit itself to generating level1 and level2; > instead the PPD files for the affected HP printers should be edited > to specify level2. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: jessie/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-printing-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51c4ce41.9050...@gmail.com
