Sorry, I have given you the wrong cupsfilter command lines, so do
exactly the following:

Undo the short circuit for the following test doing

sudo mv /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf.orig /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf

It looks like that one of the filter produces broken PDF and the next
filter (most probably cpdtocps which calls pdftops which in turn calls
/usr/bin/pdftops and that one uses libpoppler as the PDF renderer). The
errors and warnings in the error log show that libpoppler is complaining
and not Ghostscript (Linux has two PDF renderers: libpoppler and
Ghostscript).

Let us run the filter chain stopping one step before cpdftocps:

cupsfilter -m application/vnd.cups-pdf -p
/etc/cups/ppd/<yourbrokenqueue>.ppd /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps >
output.pdf 2> error_log.txt

Attach the two output files output.pdf and error_log.txt to this bug
report.

Does error_log.txt contain warnings or errors? Does output.pdf get
created and is it not empty?

Try to display output.pdf on the screen. Start with evince. Is it
correctly displayed? Or does it show artifacts similar to your
printouts?

Try to display it with Ghostscript by running

gs output.pdf

Does this work better? Or does it show the same problems?

Try also

cupsfilter -m application/pdf -p /etc/cups/ppd/<yourbrokenqueue>.ppd
/usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps > output2.pdf 2> error_log2.txt

This leaves out the pdftopdf filter (so doing this test makes only sense
if you did not short-circuit pdftopdf). Do the same steps as described
above with the output files.

Try finally

cupsfilter -m application/vnd.cups-postscript -p
/etc/cups/ppd/<yourbrokenqueue>.ppd /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps >
output3.ps 2> error_log3.txt

This adds the execution of cpdftocps. Proceed with the output files as
described above. For screen-displaying the output, use only Ghostscript:

gs output3.ps

Does this file display correctly?

Note that instead of /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps you can also use
any other PostScript or PDF file, but use the same file for all tests.

Please attach all output* and error_log* files, also if you cannot
display the files with Ghostscript and/or evince.

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