If I understand this correctly, this was fixed with cairo 1.12. At least Adrian claims so and no one claimed anything else.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cairo in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/968785 Title: ghostscript runs for indefinitely long period of time when called by foomatic-rip Status in Cairo Graphics Library: Fix Released Status in “cairo” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in “ghostscript” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I am printing to an HP Professional 1102. In had no success with HPLIP so am using foo2zjs instead. This works very well when printing from Libre Office which seems submits data to the print queue as an octet stream. Printing from evince/chromium/firefox however seems to submit data to print queue as PDF, which seems to result in a call by foomatic-rip to gs, which for most jobs other than text with no graphics runs for an indefinitely long period of time whilst utilising 100% CPU. I did a "ps -ewf" to see what options gs is being called with and was able to confirm that manually running ghostscript from the command line against more or less any PDF file I have results in the same condition of an indefinitely long run period. A search on google came up with many very similar issues but they are all very old and supposedly already resolved. However, I took my inspiration from these old problem reports and tried inserting a -dNOTRANSPARENCY into the gs command line and found that this causes gs to complete its processing in one to two seconds and the resultant postscript output which I suppose would normally in the next stage be passed off to foo2zjs for further processing seems to be OK. So to sum up, I can simulate the gs command from the command line, inserting an extra -dNOTRANSPARENCY switch and this seems to work around my problem with printing, but I cannot print from from any application other than Libre Office as I do not know how to tell foomatic-rip to pass this extra switch for me when it calls ghostscript (I guess this is hard-coded?) What I would like, (if my understanding is so far correct) is ultimately a bug fix to ghostscript, and if this going to take a long time then perhaps in the meantime you could supply me with a way to insert that extra switch into the processing of my print jobs so I might perhaps have a usable workaround in the meantime. Thank you for your time and consideration of my problem..... ***************************** Other info: shompoe@shompoe-TOSHIBA-NB305:~$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch) Release: 12.04 shompoe@shompoe-TOSHIBA-NB305:~$ apt-cache policy ghostscript ghostscript: Installed: 9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu3 Candidate: 9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu3 Version table: *** 9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu3 0 500 http://ftp.sjtu.edu.cn/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: ghostscript 9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.32-generic 3.2.12 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Mar 30 08:24:42 2012 Lpstat: device for HP-LaserJet-Pro-P1102: smb://MSHOME/REDROOM/Printer1102 MachineType: TOSHIBA TOSHIBA NB305 Papersize: a4 PpdFiles: HP-LaserJet-Pro-P1102: HP LaserJet Pro P1102 Foomatic/foo2zjs-z2 (recommended) ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-20-generic root=UUID=a705cec0-31d5-45f8-b7a3-f4b817016160 ro crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M apparmor=0 splash quiet vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: ghostscript UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 03/16/2010 dmi.bios.vendor: TOSHIBA dmi.bios.version: V1.40 dmi.board.name: NPVAA dmi.board.vendor: TOSHIBA dmi.board.version: 1.00 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: * dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: TOSHIBA dmi.chassis.version: N/A dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnTOSHIBA:bvrV1.40:bd03/16/2010:svnTOSHIBA:pnTOSHIBANB305:pvrPLL3AL-001012:rvnTOSHIBA:rnNPVAA:rvr1.00:cvnTOSHIBA:ct10:cvrN/A: dmi.product.name: TOSHIBA NB305 dmi.product.version: PLL3AL-001012 dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cairo/+bug/968785/+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
