Package: cups Version: 1.3.9-15 When I submit a plain text document to cups, I get output that is stretched horizontally a significant amount. If I ask for 16.45 characters per inch, the letters come out right, but indented lines look funny.
Looking at cups, it's running text through texttopdf | pdftops | pstops. This seems ridiculous, given that there's a texttops filter that works fine. Oddly, though, adding am /etc/cups/local.convs file that looks like text/plain application/postscript 1 texttops doesn't seem to disable the texttopdf filter. In fact, texttopdf is not mentioned anywhere under /etc/cups, and it's still used. WTF? Only if I rename /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf to texttopdf.DONTUSE and restart (not force-reload) cups does it use texttops and produce usable output. Debian/unstable, i386, HP LaserJet with postscript support, printing via socket:9100. (A second bug is that texttops insists on including Courier and Courier-Bold fonts which every single PostScript printer since the original LaserWriter has in ROM already. Moving /usr/share/cups/fonts/Courier* to a different location produces perfectly functional, and much smaller, output. But this should probably be a different bug report.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
