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Package: ghostscript
Version: 8.64~dfsg-1
Severity: normal
Several Brother printers (at least HL2030, HL2040, HL2070; see the
debian-user list at the beginning of April 2009) stopped working when
ghostscript version 8.64 was introduced. Downgrading to 8.63 solves the
problem.
The Brother printer "driver" consists of 2 shell scripts and one
closed-source file supplied by Brother. The first shell script ensures that
the file to be printed is a .ps file, converting non-ps files to ps if
necessary. The second script runs gs, with "bit" as the output device. Then
the output is processed by the closed-source program and fed to the printer.
The drivers can be downloaded from
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/lpr_drivers.html
(for lpr. There are also CUPS drivers; they also do not work with 8.64).
gs is called as follows by the second script: (note: one line is 92 chars
long)
GHOST_SCRIPT=`which gs`
OUTPUT_TYPE=bit
GHOST_OPT="-q -dNOPROMPT -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -sDEVICE=$OUTPUT_TYPE -sOutputFile=-
- -c quit"
exec $GHOST_SCRIPT -r$RESOLUTION -g${WIDTH}x${HEIGHT} $GHOST_OPT
No idea why this suddenly stopped working. But it did. The second script
(called psconv2) produces no output if version 8.64 is used.
Regards, Jan
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages ghostscript depends on:
ii debconf [debc 1.5.26 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 3.0.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii defoma 0.11.10-0.2 Debian Font Manager -- automatic f
ii ghostscript [ 8.64~dfsg-1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii gs-common 8.64~dfsg-1 Dummy package depending on ghostsc
ii gsfonts 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre
ii libc6 2.9-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcups2 1.3.9-16 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsimage2 1.3.9-16 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libgnutls26 2.6.4-2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libgs8 8.64~dfsg-1 The Ghostscript PostScript/PDF int
ii libgssapi-krb 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-12 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpng12-0 1.2.35-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libtiff4 3.8.2-11 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages ghostscript recommends:
ii psfontmgr 0.11.10-0.2 PostScript font manager -- part of
Versions of packages ghostscript suggests:
ii ghostscript-x 8.64~dfsg-1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
pn hpijs <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: ghostscript
Version: 8.71~dfsg2-9
Work for me
Thanks
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