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Package: foomatic-filters
Version: 3.0.2-20061031-1.2
Severity: normal
Hello,
I can't print a .dvi file using foomatic-rip together with LPRng (didn't
try CUPS).
The problem is that the dvi file gets converted inappropriately. After
reading man pages and other documentation included with foomatic-rip and
a2ps, I can say that a2ps discovers the file type properly as "(dvi)",
but the resulting output on my printer is a sequence of control
chacacters, neatly embedded in your typical a2ps page frame (featuring
the printing date etc., and a bogus file name).
Initially, I tried with different settings, namely "automatic converter,
and automatic gs selection", but it would not help. I also enabled
logging in foomatic-rip. The section containing the conversion sequence
seems to be this (the original dvi file is one page long):
Reading PostScript input ...
Job does not start with "%!", is it PostScript?
Starting file converter
Starting converter for non-PostScript files
tail process done reading data from STDIN
KID2 finished
file converter PID kid2=3135
file converter command: a2ps -1 --medium=A4dj --center-title="daemon@birch" -o -
[stdin (plain): 10 pages on 10 sheets]
[Total: 10 pages on 10 sheets] sent to the standard output
[27 lines wrapped]
--> This document is DSC-conforming!
KID1 finished
What's really strange is that if I simply convert the file on the
command line, using this command:
$ a2ps -1 --medium=A4dj --center-title="daemon@birch" -o - brief.dvi >
/tmp/b.ps
("brief.dvi" is the input file in all cases)
the resulting file "/tmp/b.ps" contains exactly what I want it to
contain.
Kind regards,
--Toni++
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'),
(500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-bpo.1-amd64
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages foomatic-filters depends on:
ii bash 3.1dfsg-8 The GNU Bourne Again SHell
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11etch2 Debian configuration management sy
ii perl 5.8.8-7etch3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii ucf 2.0020 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages foomatic-filters recommends:
ii a2ps 1:4.13b.dfsg.1-1 GNU a2ps - 'Anything to PostScript
ii cupsys 1.2.7-4etch5 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii enscript 1.6.4-11.1 Converts ASCII text to Postscript,
ii foomatic-db-engine 3.0.2-20061031-1 linuxprinting.org printer support
ii gs 8.54.dfsg.1-5etch1 Transitional package
ii gs-esp [gs] 8.15.3.dfsg.1-1etch1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii gs-gpl [gs] 8.54.dfsg.1-5etch1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript int
ii lprng [lpr] 3.8.28dfsg.1-1.1 lpr/lpd printer spooling system
-- debconf information:
* foomatic-filters/spooler: lprng
* foomatic-filters/gspath: gs-esp
foomatic-filters/ps_accounting: false
foomatic-filters/config_parsed: true
* foomatic-filters/textfilter: a2ps
* foomatic-filters/filter_debug: true
foomatic-filters/custom_textfilter:
foomatic-filters/custom_gspath:
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi,
this bug was found in version 3.0.2.
Current version is 4.0.17.
This version is not longer supported.
I close this bug. If the error still exists feel free to fill a new bug
report for the current version.
Regards,
Jörg
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