** Summary changed:
- Bad definition of Ledger paper size in postscript.ppd and derived PPDs breaks
Java applications
+ Java is not able to read landscape-oriented paper sizes (like Ledger) in PPD
files
** Also affects: sun-java6 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: sun-java6 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Tags added: patch-rejected
** Tags removed: patch
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Title:
Java is not able to read landscape-oriented paper sizes (like Ledger) in PPD
files
Status in “icedtea-java7” package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in “openjdk-6” package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in “sun-java6” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Binary package hint: cups
The Ledger paper size is incorrectly defined in many printers' PPDs. This
causes significant printing problems in Java applications.
The Ledger paper size is defined as follows. For comparison the Legal size is
included as well:
*PageSize Ledger/Ledger: "<</PageSize[1224 792]/ImagingBBox
null>>setpagedevice"
*PageSize Legal/US Legal: "<</PageSize[612 1008]/ImagingBBox
null>>setpagedevice"
Notice how in the Ledger case, the width is specified as larger than the
height. This is the only such entry in the entire file.
When the JRE parses the PPD to find paper sizes, it chokes on that entry and
raises an exception:
IPPPrintService>> error creating CUPSPrinter
e=java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: X dimension > Y dimension
This exception is normally silently ignored. It can be seen by enabling
debugging with the following code. Note this is a proprietary API and not
guaranteed to work on all JDK versions. It was tested on openjdk-6-jre
6b09-0ubuntu2.
sun.print.IPPPrintService.debugPrint = true;
When this happens, parsing page sizes is aborted, and an empty list of paper
sizes results. The JRE then adds a single entry corresponding to the default
paper size on the system. For instance on US systems the only paper size added
is Letter, and A4 on european ones. This results in the inability to print
anything that doesn't use the default paper size.
This bug is in the postscript.ppd file, which has extended to many other
printers. A trivial way of testing it is installing cups-pdf, which carries a
PPD with the same bug. On my system, "grep -r '1224 792' /usr/share/ppd | grep
PageSize | wc -l" suggests 238 printers are affected.
Reproduction:
$ sudo apt-get install cups-pdf
$ javac DumpPrintInfo.java
$ java DumpPrintInfo
Only one paper type will be listed for the PDF printer:
class javax.print.attribute.standard.Media
na-letter
class javax.print.attribute.standard.NumberUp
$ sudo sed -i 's/1224 792/792 1224/g' /etc/cups/ppd/PDF.ppd
$ java DumpPrintInfo
class javax.print.attribute.standard.Media
Custom
jis-b4
b
iso-c3
jis-b3
iso-a2
jis-b0
jis-b0
...
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: cups 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.45-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Dec 9 13:00:36 2010
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427)
Lpstat: device for Virtual_PDF_Printer: cups-pdf:/
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv3 Notebook PC
Papersize: a4
PpdFiles: Virtual_PDF_Printer: Generic CUPS-PDF Printer
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.32-25-generic
root=/dev/mapper/hostname-root ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: cups
dmi.bios.date: 04/21/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.06
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: 306D
dmi.board.vendor: Compal
dmi.board.version: 22.23
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Compal
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.06:bd04/21/2009:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondv3NotebookPC:pvrF.06:rvnCompal:rn306D:rvr22.23:cvnCompal:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dv3 Notebook PC
dmi.product.version: F.06
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
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