Public bug reported:
We discovered that cups in lucid does not correctly print certain PDFs
when printing from the command line with lpr or as a shared printer from
preview in OS X. The same file prints correctly with cups on hardy. This
issue occurs with a variety of different printers.
I tracked down the problem to /usr/bin/pdftops by running the pdf
through the filters that cups does according to the log.
/usr/bin/pdftops is called by the cpdftocps filter.
This pdftops is installed from poppler-utils:
$dpkg-query -S /usr/bin/pdftops
poppler-utils: /usr/bin/pdftops
After running the pdf through each step of the filter, I opened it with
evince. After running through pdftops, evince showed exactly what I see
when I print the file.
Interestingly, if I print from evince or acroread, all the lines are
printed correctly. I think they are converting the file to postscript
themselves before sending it to cups.
I will attach the file that shows this behavior.
The pdftops provided by the cups package does not exhibit this problem.
$ dpkg-query -S /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops
cups: /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: poppler-utils 0.12.4-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jul 12 12:33:43 2010
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: poppler
** Affects: cups
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: poppler (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug lucid
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pdftops loses grid lines
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604724
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