[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#474241: Bug#474241: cupsys: Patch for landscape printing from MacOS X clients

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:18:03AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Axel Beckert [2008-04-04 15:42 +0200]:
> > Please include the patch at
> > 
> >   http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2149
> >   http://www.cups.org/strfiles/2149/str2149.patch
> 
> > into the Debian package of CUPS. Without this patch, MacOS X clients
> > are no more able to print landscape on a debian-based CUPS printing
> > server.
> 
> This patch does not apply to the Debian package, since it does not use
> the internal xpdf copy shipped by cups 1.3.7, but the new pdftops
> filter from cups 1.4, which wraps around xpdf-utils/poppler-utils.

Ah, ok. 

> Did you actually test printing landscape from a MacOS X client?

Of course. That's why we investigated the issue. We found the
mentioned bug-report at cups.org which fit quite well to the issue, so
I filed a bug to get that "feature" into Debian. :-)

Our (quite ugly and unsatisfying) current solution for the problem is
to pipe all print jobs coming from a Mac through pstops on some MacOS
X server (via CUPS filter and rsh) which fixes the problem for us. (A
solution where Debian's CUPS could handle this issue by it's own would
be much better though.)

So it may also be a MacOS X problem ("Apple broke its own CUPS, but
not the Open Source one"), but somehow I really wonder why all
machines work more or less fine with Debian's or FreeBSD's CUPS expect
the machines manufactured by the owner of CUPS which seem to be
equipped with a modified version behaving slightly but noticeably
different.

> If it doesn't work, this should be reassigned to poppler and xpdf.

Feel free to reassign (or even close it, if you think, it's a MacOS X
feature -eh- bug).

		Kind regards, Axel Beckert
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