Hi,<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/3/24 Volker Behr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:behr@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de">behr@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 17:54 +0100, Jean-Philippe Thierry wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> Le 24 mars 2011 15:44, Martin-Éric Racine <<a href="mailto:martin-eric.racine@iki.fi">martin-eric.racine@iki.fi</a>><br>
> a écrit :<br>
> 2011/3/24 Volker Behr <<a href="mailto:behr@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de">behr@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de</a>>:<br>
> > The log-file you sent me contains the following line:<br>
> ><br>
> > Thu Mar 24 11:05:53 2011 [DEBUG] file already pdf, simply<br>
> copying it<br>
> ><br>
> (cp /var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-12256 /home/jpht/tmp/PDF/Bugs_in_package_cups-pdf_--_Debian_Bug_report_logs.pdf)<br>
> ><br>
> > This option to directly copy PDF instead of reprocessing it<br>
> was<br>
> > suggested to me some time back and I decided not to<br>
> implement it since<br>
> > it would disable all options set in cups-pdf.conf on the<br>
> respective<br>
> > files. This is exactly what happens to you here: the PDF is<br>
> just passed<br>
> > through instead of getting re-worked with all your desired<br>
> options by<br>
> > CUPS-PDF.<br>
> ><br>
> > So, speaking for upstream: no fix needed.<br>
> > My advise to the distribution: remove this additional patch<br>
> on CUPS-PDF<br>
> > since it breaks basic functionality.<br>
><br>
><br>
> The patch in question was removed in 2.5.1-1 as far as Debian<br>
> and<br>
> Ubuntu are concerned:<br>
><br>
> * Dropped 70_cups-pdf_support-pdf-workflow.patch<br>
> + This patch has received more criticism than praises from<br>
> the end-users,<br>
> because it essentially renders the Ghostscript options in<br>
> cups-pdf.conf<br>
> useless, plus it no longer applies cleanly to the<br>
> upstream code.<br>
><br>
> From this perspective, I'd mark the issue as fixed since that<br>
> version. Agreed?<br>
><br>
> Martin-Éric<br>
><br>
> just tried installing cups-pdf from sid on my squeeze. GSCall and<br>
> PDFVer are taken into acount but... I am only getting 1 page empty<br>
> documents; even failling back to the default settings<br>
> in /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf. Could it be due to a dependency issue even<br>
> if not raised by the package?<br>
><br>
> log file attached<br>
><br>
</div></div>Just as a note:<br>
<br>
might be related to issue #617468<br>
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<br>
</blockquote></div>I end up recompiling the package from source (squeeze version) removing patch 70_cups-pdf_support-pdf-
<div id=":1di">workflow.patch and it works. <br>
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Thanks folks for your help.</div><br>-- <br><div>Jean-Philippe</div><br>