[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#522595: cups: cannot set reverse-order printing in ppd

[Sanjoy Mahajan]

Package: cups
Version: 1.3.9-16
Severity: normal

The pages used to come out in reverse order on the HP PSC 2710 printer
(which is what I want, since the printer prints face up).  That
stopped working after an aptitude upgrade a month or two ago (I'm
tracking unstable).  Now, with or without the magic line

*DefaultOutputOrder: "reverse"

in /etc/cups/psc.ppd, the pages come out in 'normal' order (first page
first).  I've tested it only with printing PDF files.  

However, the lp option '-o output-order=reverse' does reverse the
order. e.g. this works fine:

  lp -o output-order=reverse -o page-ranges=123-184 book-indexing.pdf

(although it doesn't matter whether the ppd has the DefaultOutputOrder
line).

This problem surprised me because the Debian changelog has this entry:

cups (1.3.9-6) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Till Kamppeter ]
  * debian/local/filters/cpdftocps: The cpdftocps filter did case-sensitive
    checking for CUPS options to keep them away from the pstops filter. CUPS
    treats such options case-insensitive, so in some cases CUPS options got
    applied twice (LP: #299707).

and I'm using a more recent version cups package (1.3.9-16).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.4 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser              3.110               add and remove users and groups
ii  bc                   1.06.94-3           The GNU bc arbitrary precision cal
ii  cups-common          1.3.9-16            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0 1.5.26              Debian configuration management sy
ii  ghostscript          8.64~dfsg-1         The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libavahi-compat-libd 0.6.24-3            Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility 
ii  libc6                2.9-6               GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcups2             1.3.9-16            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsimage2        1.3.9-16            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.2.12-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcc1              1:4.3.3-5           GCC support library
ii  libgnutls26          2.6.4-2             the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2     1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-12 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libijs-0.35          0.35-6              IJS raster image transport protoco
ii  libkrb5-3            1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-12 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2        2.4.15-1            OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g             1.0.1-9             Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1            1.1.23+nmu1         library for handling paper charact
ii  libpoppler4          0.10.5-1            PDF rendering library
ii  libslp1              1.2.1-7.5           OpenSLP libraries
ii  libstdc++6           4.3.3-5             The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  lsb-base             3.2-22              Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl-modules         5.10.0-19           Core Perl modules
ii  poppler-utils [xpdf- 0.10.5-1            PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii  procps               1:3.2.7-11          /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert             1.0.23              simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
ii  ttf-freefont         20090104-2          Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13   compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii  avahi-utils               0.6.24-3       Avahi browsing, publishing and dis
ii  cups-client               1.3.9-16       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters          4.0-20090311-1 OpenPrinting printer support - fil
ii  smbclient                 2:3.3.2-2      command-line SMB/CIFS clients for 

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd                  1.3.9-16       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
pn  cups-driver-gutenprint    <none>         (no description available)
ii  cups-pdf                  2.5.0-1        PDF printer for CUPS
ii  foomatic-db               20090301-2     OpenPrinting printer support - dat
ii  foomatic-db-engine        4.0-20090301-1 OpenPrinting printer support - pro
ii  hplip                     3.9.2-3        HP Linux Printing and Imaging Syst
pn  xpdf-korean | xpdf-japane <none>         (no description available)

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