The fix has been backported/uploaded to Debian and will be synced to
Ubuntu later today. It would probably also be a good candidate for SRUs
** Changed in: cairo (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: cairo (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1817033
Title:
Unable to correctly print PDF file: Error: Ignoring spurious ET
operator.
Status in cairo package in Ubuntu:
Fix Committed
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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