It turns out these are HP PCL control codes (Thanks Mark N) I resolved my problem by first filtering the input through ghost-pcl to convert it to a CUPS input friendly format and then was able to generate my PDF file output.
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue 11 Jun 2013 at 12:01:19 -0400, Patrick Zaloum wrote: > > > If I remove the control characters from my local copy of the print job > and > > resubmit it, the PDF gets produced. Otherwise the process ends with an > > unrecoverable ghostscript error -1 and a blank PDF. Using a basic > text-only > > printer driver and sending a job myself through the cups-lpr service, I > get > > the desired output. > > > > For what it's worth, the control characters in this particular case are: > > > ^[E^[&l0S^[&l5H^[&l1O^[(8U^[(s0P^[(s15H^[(s8.5V^[(s0S^[(s0B^[(s0T^[&l5.2727C^[&k8H^[&l7E^[&a14L^[&l1L^[&s0C^[&a0R > > Would filtering the incoming jobs and removing non-printable characters > with something like tr or sed not be a possibility? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130612142102.GG11739@desktop > >
