My observations: As changing pdftops-renderer does not seem to make a difference, probably only one of the programs is installed and thus used in all cases?
According to Dependencies.txt, libcairo2-1.15.12-1 seems to installed, which AFAIK is affected by the problem described e.g. here: https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/issues/705 I have no explanation though, how the pdf (which, by itself, does not seem to contain the error, AFAIAC) would run through the cairo pdf backend ... It does not really seem form-related, but there are some options to change the form-flattening engines (Till?) - or could it possibly be that the 1.21 cups-filter uses some pdf-to-pdf form flattening which uses the cairo backend ? ** Bug watch added: github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/issues #705 https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/issues/705 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cups-filters in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1817033 Title: Unable to correctly print PDF file: Error: Ignoring spurious ET operator. Status in cups-filters package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Upstream bug report https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups- filters/issues/93. The university document [antrag_exmatrikulation.pdf](https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups- filters/files/2881078/antrag_exmatrikulation.pdf) causes problems on different printers. Printing on the Canon iR-ADV C2225i using the Canon PCL, an error page is first printed, and on the first page after _Email_ everything is missing. The second page is fine. ``` **** Error: Ignoring spurious ET operator. Output may be inco **** ``` For that printer a special filter `sicgsfilter` has to be used, and is distributed by Canon. This also happens with their CQue 4.0-1 release from September 2018. ``` *FoomaticRIPCommandLine: "gs -q -dBATCH %F -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE %B%A%C -dPDFFitPage -sOutputFile=- - %D%E | sicgsfilter -MPCL -NP %G%H%I -u&user; -V"&title;" -n&copies; " ``` On the Epson printer _WorkForce WF-2660_, no error page is printed, but on the first page everything after _Email_ _is missing_ too. Trying to use different pdftops renderers did not make any difference. For example, ``` lpr -o pdftops-renderer=pdftops -P chipprinterpcl antrag_exmatrikulation.pdf ``` gave the same result, the same with `pdftocairo`, `acroread`, `mupdf`. Following `/usr/share/doc/cups-filters/README.gz` and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems, I verified that the exact same PDF is put into the CUPS spool directory, and I captured the data sent to the printer with the commands below. $ lpadmin -p chipprinterpclfile -E -v file:/tmp/printout -P ~/chipprinterpcl.ppd $ lpr -P chipprinterpclfile -o psdebug ~/antrag_exmatrikulation.pdf I get the attached Postscript file, which indeed contains the error messages. ``` ESC%-12345X@PJL CQue4.0-1 x86_64 @PJL COMMENT CANPJL SET USERNAME="pmenzel@localhost" @PJL COMMENT CANPJL SET DOCNAME="antrag_exmatrikulation.pdf!pmenz" @PJL SET RENDERMODE=COLOR @PJL COMMENT CANPJL SET FORCEMONOCHROME=FALSE @PJL COMMENT CANPJL SET SORTERMODE=GENERICON @PJL COMMENT CANPJL SET STAPLE=GENERICOFF @PJL COMMENT CANPJL SET BOOKLET=GENERICOFF @PJL SET DENSITY=0 @PJL ENTER LANGUAGE=PCL **** Error: Ignoring spurious ET operator. Output may be incorrect. **** Error: Executing Do inside a text block, attempting to recover Output may be incorrect. **** Error: Executing Do inside a text block, attempting to recover Output may be incorrect. **** Error: Ignoring spurious ET operator. Output may be incorrect. **** Error: Executing Do inside a text block, attempting to recover Output may be incorrect. **** Error: illegal nested BT operator detected. Output may be incorrect. **** Error: Ignoring spurious ET operator. Output may be incorrect. **** Error: Executing Do inside a text block, attempting to recover Output may be incorrect. **** Error: illegal nested BT operator detected. Output may be incorrect. […] ``` Please find that file attached. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10 Package: cups 2.2.8-5ubuntu1.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-15.16-generic 4.18.20 Uname: Linux 4.18.0-15-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Feb 21 10:23:08 2019 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-03-20 (702 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2) Lpstat: device for Canon-iR-ADV-C2225: lpd://winprima.molgen.mpg.de/test device for DCP375CW: socket://141.14.220.198 Lsusb: Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:568b Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04f3:2234 Elan Microelectronics Corp. Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0cf3:e300 Atheros Communications, Inc. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9360 Papersize: a4 PpdFiles: Canon-iR-ADV-C2225: Canon iR-ADV C2225 PCL DCP375CW: Brother DCP-375CW CUPS ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.18.0-15-generic root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root ro quiet splash initcall_debug log_buf_len=16M vt.handoff=1 SourcePackage: cups UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-10-30 (113 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 09/27/2018 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: 2.10.0 dmi.board.name: 0839Y6 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.board.version: A00 dmi.chassis.type: 9 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr2.10.0:bd09/27/2018:svnDellInc.:pnXPS139360:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0839Y6:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr: dmi.product.family: XPS dmi.product.name: XPS 13 9360 dmi.product.sku: 075B dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. 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