[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#511009: all output printed as raw pdf

[Bdale Garbee]

severity 511009 serious
thanks

I'm seeing this problem now.

All of my printers started spewing pages of raw pdf when I upgraded to 
cups 1.3.9-14 yesterday from whatever was in unstable as of a week or so
ago.  All of them are HP devices using hplip and network interfaces.

The problem apparently is that the files in /etc/cups/ppd ended up with 
two lines starting '*cupsFilter:', like:

  *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 100 foomatic-rip"
  *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-pdf 0 foomatic-rip"

Removing the second line and changing the '100' in the first to '0' got
things working again.

I gather this is a transition problem in the move from ps to pdf that foomatic
isn't quite ready for yet?  In any case, it's a pretty horrific bug that 
really must get resolved before squeeze releases, so I'm increasing the 
severity on this bug to serious.

Bdale