[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#457810: cupsys: Pdftops filter fails (/usr/bin/pdftops exits with status code 1)

[Jason White]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.3.5-1
Severity: important

>From /var/log/cups/error_log

E [26/Dec/2007:14:32:46 +1100] [Job 882] pdftops-options: -cfg /etc/cups/pdftops.conf
E [26/Dec/2007:14:32:46 +1100] [Job 882] /usr/bin/pdftops exited with  exit code 1
E [26/Dec/2007:14:32:46 +1100] PID 10366 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops) stopped with status 1!
E [26/Dec/2007:14:32:46 +1100] [Job 882] Empty print file!
E [26/Dec/2007:14:32:46 +1100] PID 10367 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops) stopped with status 1!

This happens with every PDF file that I try to print. I haven't edited
/etc/cups/pdftops.conf, the contents of which are as follows:

#
# Configuration file for the alternate pdftops filter
#
# 2004-10-05/Bl
#	initial
#
# This configuration file defaults the configuration settings for xpdf's pdftops
# utility for use as a CUPS filter (under the pdftops wrapper). Short of 
# unicode handling, those options are listed which are (or seem to me) relevant
# to convert PDFs to PostScript suitable for production printers.
#
# Most of these options may be overridden by osing the commandline options
# pr pdftops prefixed with 'pdf'. Example: to enable OPI handling, add
#	pdf-opi
# to the command line options. For the details see the pdftops wrapper.

#
# Where to search for fonts not embedded in the PDF (currently, Type1 fonts only)
#
fontDir /PostScript/pfa

#
# Paper size handling
#	We default to the media size specified in the PDF file.
#	If a crop box is specified, it wil be used, otherwise the media box instead.
#	By default, we use this size as imageable area.
#
psPaperSize match
psCrop yes
psExpandSmaller no
psShrinkLarger no
psCenter yes

#
# As we have (level 2) printers which don't understand CID fonts, we produce level 2
# output.
#
psLevel level2

#
# Font handling.
# We embed all fonts embedded in the PDF in the generated PS (level2 compatible composite
# fonts in case of CID fonts.
#
psEmbedType1Fonts yes
psEmbedTrueTypeFonts yes
psEmbedCIDTrueTypeFonts yes
psEmbedCIDPostScriptFonts yes

#
# OPI.
# As OPI handling is rather uncommon to printers, disable it by default. But it may be
# enabled by print command attribute.
#
psOPI no

#
# Use ASCII85 encoding.
#
psASCIIHex no

I can run /usr/bin/pdftops manually to convert PDF files to Postscript without
error. The latest xpdf package in Sid is installed, version 3.02-1.3

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser            3.105                 add and remove users and groups
ii  cupsys-common      1.3.5-1               Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2 1.5.17                Debian configuration management sy
ii  ghostscript [gs-es 8.61.dfsg.1~svn8187-3 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  gs-esp             8.61.dfsg.1~svn8187-3 Transitional package
ii  libavahi-compat-li 0.6.21-4              Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility 
ii  libc6              2.7-5                 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsimage2      1.3.5-1               Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2         1.3.5-1               Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3        1.1.2-1               simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgnutls13        2.0.4-1               the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libkrb53           1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-2    MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap2           2.1.30.dfsg-13.5      OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g           0.99.7.1-5            Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1          1.1.23                library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1            1.2.1-6.2             OpenSLP libraries
ii  lsb-base           3.1-24                Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  perl-modules       5.8.8-12              Core Perl modules
ii  poppler-utils [xpd 0.6.2-1               PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii  procps             1:3.2.7-5             /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert           1.0.14                Simple debconf wrapper for openssl

Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii  avahi-utils           0.6.21-4           Avahi browsing, publishing and dis
ii  cupsys-client         1.3.5-1            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters      3.0.2-20061031-1.2 linuxprinting.org printer support 
ii  smbclient             3.0.28-1           a LanManager-like simple client fo

-- debconf information:
  cupsys/raw-print: true
  cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, scsi, serial, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd