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Title: loosing %Title info => cups-pdf save as "_stdin_" Status in “cups-pdf” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: cups 1) Ubuntu release: Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) 2) Package version: cups 1.3.9-17ubuntu3.2 3) What did I expect: PDF generated from printing through cups-pdf saved using the document title (from %Title in Postscript) as the file name ; it was working this way in Intrepid. 4) What happened instead: file are always saved as "_stdin_" (literally, and so overriding each other, but there is a workaround for this) whatever the document title is. cups-pdf use the document %Title information to generate the filename for the PDF to be saved. I discovered that the document entering cups- pdf processing was lacking this information, while it was available in the original Postscript document. So it's not a cups-pdf problem but a CUPS document processing instead. After investigating more, by putting cupsd LogLevel to debug, I also discovered that CUPS does process documents aimed at cups-pdf this way: [Job 380] envp[21]="CONTENT_TYPE=application/postscript" [Job 380] envp[24]="FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE=application/vnd.cups-postscript" [Job 380] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstopdf (PID 4490) [Job 380] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf (PID 4492) [Job 380] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/cpdftocps (PID 4497) [Job 380] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf (PID 4503) If I understand correctly, it first cleanup the Postscript code, then transform it into PDF (?), cleanup the PDF code and transform it back into Postscript before passing it to cups-pdf. I found that the pstopdf filter kept the %Title intact but the pdftopdf filter made it lost. IMHO, but I don't know printing processing well, this is a just a wrong path for going to cups-pdf. CUPS should just pass it to cups- pdf, after the minimal Postscript code cleanup and that's it. So this is the solution I choose to apply at my office: I moved away the file "/etc/cups/pstopdf.convs" (and restarted the "cups" service) so CUPS knew no more how to convert from Postscript to PDF. This made my day: PDF printing was saved using their document title again. So I declare this as a bug and suggest to take some action (may be mine, may be a better way) to allow other Ubuntu users to get it right without having to put their hand in it... ;-) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-pdf/+bug/416000/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
