[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#670055: cups-filters: Printing a text file fails when Liberation is the only TrueType font available

[Fabian Greffrath]

Am 26.04.2012 11:53, schrieb Brian Potkin:
> "Print to File" doesn't use cups. It produces a pdf file with embedded
> fonts dictated by the application.

Oh, interesting, I didn't even know.

>     The result is the same as I described in my first post - an output
>     file which is empty. Substituting the Generic-PostScript PPD file
>     from foomatic for the Generic-PDF one (first deleting the test print
>     queue) makes no difference.

I have reproduced your steps and... ended up with an actual file in 
/tmp/printout which has the LiberationMono font embedded:

$ ls -l /tmp/printout
-rw------- 1 root root 49741 Apr 26 13:02 /tmp/printout

$ sudo pdffonts /tmp/printout
name                        type              emb sub uni object ID
--------------------------- ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
MGMUUY+LiberationMono       CID TrueType      yes yes no       8  0

> Apologies for the delay in replying but testing a few times took a little
> while. My understanding of font behaviour is rudimentary so I'm not very
> sure what is going on here. Please let me know if there is anything else
> I can do to help.

Could you please get the sources for cups-filters ("sudo apt-get 
build-dep cups-filters; apt-get source cups-filters"), apply the 
attached patch ("quilt import /path/to/patch; quilt push") , rebuild 
the package ("debuild -us -uc") and then install the resulting 
cups-filters package ("sudo dpkg -i ../cups-filters_1.0.16-2_i386.deb")?

Then please try again and tell us the lines in /var/log/cups/error_log 
that contain "###".

  - Fabian
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