Marcus MERIGHI <mcmer-open...@tor.at> wrote: > punoseva...@gmail.com (Predrag Punosevac), 2020.06.08 (Mon) 23:57 (CEST): > > It seems that there is another change on 6.7 perhaps among packages > > which broke printing for me. I am using built in LPD to print onto the > > network connected Brother HL-5250DN. I am getting row PostScript output > > on the printer instead of the document. > > I think I've seen the same. Though I could still print simple text > files, like "cat foo.txt | lpr".
Hi Marcus, Thanks for confirming the issue. I am 95% sure that this is related to the upgrade of cups-filters package. Namely, there are two packages involved with my printing setup. a2ps and cups-filters a2ps has not been changed since 6.6 relase and it is still the same old a2ps-4.14p15 However, cups-filters is significantly "upgraded". OpenBSD 6.6 was shipped with cups-filters-1.25.6. OpenBSD 6.7 was shipped with cups-filters-1.27.4p0. Looking through internet archive and the commit log https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/print/cups-filters/Makefile cups-filters-1.27 branch was nothing but the trouble. I am not sure why upstream quickly ditched cups-filters-1.26. When I say trouble I really mean it. This thing broke printing on CentOS and Ubuntu not just on OpenBSD. I upgraded my package to cups-filters-1.27.5 and that didn't fix the problems for me. I tried yesterday to go back to the last 1.25 version cups-filters-1.25.13 I was unable to compile program quickly. It requires more work. I am surprised to find out that I am the first one reporting the issue as I would expect more people to use LPD than CUPS. I fixed cups-filter package probably would be worth of stable binary package effort. Best, Predrag > Printing PDFs from xournal failed, with raw PS output as you describe. > > The machine is currently not available, probably online this afternoon, > will post the configs then. > > I guess you want to avoid it, but cups still works on that machine. > > Marcus
