Upstream rejected this patch because it prevents configuring CUPS-PDF's
ghostscript call.
** Changed in: cups-pdf (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Won't Fix
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It is a shame that this problem has still not been fixed after such a long time
even so there has been a proper fix available.
https://github.com/alexivkin/CUPS-PDF-to-PDF for v3.01
and
https://launchpad.net/~jethrogb/+archive/ppa for v2.6.1-9pdfpatch1
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The same issue is still present in the latest version of CUPS-PDF (v3
beta 2). I've patched it and put on github -
https://github.com/alexivkin/CUPS-PDF-to-PDF
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Thanks Björgvin. PPA here: https://launchpad.net/~jethrogb/+archive/ppa
. My PPA does currently not contain any standard packages, but I'm not
guaranteeing it won't in the future, so if you don't want to risk
updating those, set you apt_preferences accordingly:
Package: *
Pin: release
I noticed two things about the patch:
1) I needed to reinstall the printer for it to work. If this ever makes it into
distribution, that should be automatic.
2) Files printed from Firefox this way no longer have a title (output file is
just called PDF-job_###.pdf)
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No, you're right, it's not needed, I've attached an updated version of
the patch.
I did not read this bug report carefully enough, but this is essentially
the same as 70_cups-pdf_support-pdf-workflow.patch which was dropped as
discussed earlier.
I'm using cups-pdf as a stop gap until
Björgvin, is the adding of JCL by the PPD file really needed? The
resulting PDF should be pure PDF without any JCL around it, as it is not
for an actual printer.
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Hello all,
I've created a patch against cups-pdf_2.6.1-9 which addresses this
issue. See attachment.
kind regards,
Björgvin
** Patch added: PDF input support for cups-pdf
The attachment PDF input support for cups-pdf seems to be a patch. If
it isn't, please remove the patch flag from the attachment, remove the
patch tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers,
unsubscribe the team.
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I discovered this bug just yesterday as I used pdfgrep to find a special
expression in the PDF archive of my mails. Only mails before August 2011
were searchable.
Until this bug is fixed: What exacxtly do I have to do to prevent the
ps-and-back-conversion? I didn’t understand the thing with
Is there any resolution to this issue? - i.e Cups-PDF converting PDFs to
PS and back.
I am still getting mangled PDFs out of CUPS PDF (mac os)
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Cups-PDF almost is perfect for my task, it is just the conversion of
PDFs to Postscript (and then back to PDF) which is introducing errors in
the final PDF's, when they could simply skip that conversion.
I think the architecture suggested in this discussion seems rational and
would be welcomed.
The point is that printing e.g. from Firefox to cups-pdf works with the
older versions of cups-pdf and does not with recent versions (for the same
websites).
Why not print to file, you ask: It is simply a lot more steps (more clicks
and manually entering a filename).
I do not really understand,
The Wine print-to-file does not appear to work well. Some applications
under wine produce a postcript file, but this does not seem to provide
searchable text. This may be a Wine bug.
However, the print-to-file option for native linux programs does seem to
provide what CUPS-PDF should provide (I
CUPS-PDF converts PostScript to PDF. PostScript does not support
searchable text. So CUPS-PDF does not have the information available to
make a searchable PDF. Many applications now generate print output in
PDF format. So using CUPS-PDF means the searchable PDF from the
application is converted to
Adrian cups pdf used to create searchable PDFs until 12.04, when it
became infested with many bugs including this one.
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Title:
cups-pdf should
It depends on the font encoding used in the PostScript. It is possible
for it to work in some cases. It may be a CUPS-PDF regression or it may
be a change in the way the fonts are encoding in the PostScript supplied
to CUPS-PDF.
It is possible to get searchable PDF when converting PostScript to
Unfortunately there are some things that are not fully supported in
Wine. I don't understand the details, but it seems there's a missing
redirected port monitor (Redmon) feature that means that PDFCreator
doesn't work. There are reports that there is also a problem with the
fonts which would
unfortunately print-to-file doesn't work for me. My particular problem
is a Windows program running under Wine, and print-to-file in that
environment has a similar problem. I have found a fairly diabolical
work-around for my current problem (involving Access 2003 to RTF, to
Word 2003 to DOC, to
Doesn't wine let you access Gnome's Print to file option
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Tim Passingham tim@tim-
passingham.co.ukwrote:
unfortunately print-to-file doesn't work for me. My particular problem
is a Windows program running under Wine, and print-to-file in that
environment has a
Can I also ask whether there is a temporary fix to get searchable text
from CUPS-PDF?
I'm currently being forced to use Windoze - the pain, the pain
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you need to use print-to-file, cups has become buggy in the last release
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Title:
cups-pdf should not convert PDF print jobs to PS then to PDF
To
Is there a temporary fix we can do to have cups-pdf working like it was
in 10.10.
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Title:
cups-pdf should not convert PDF print jobs to PS then
** Changed in: cups-pdf (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Wishlist
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Title:
cups-pdf should not convert PDF print jobs to PS then to PDF
To
Upstream says that he never noticed how those recent internal changes in
CUPS could make the production of PDF documents much easier than before
and no longer require Ghostscript by default.
What he is likely to do is to fix outstanding bugs within the 2.6 series
and then, if his initial testing
I forwarded this to the upstream author. Here is his response:
So a PDF-PostScript-PDF path is more than awkward.
The reasons for not skipping this step are known to you (it will severly
impede the functionality of CUPS-PDF). Furthermore, once again, CUPS-PDF
is not meant for processing
This way cups-pdf as provided by upstream disqualifies itself for being
part of Debian and Ubuntu distributions. Practically all applications
send their print jobs in PDF format and CUPS in Debian and Ubuntu is
configured to respect this by maintaining the data stream format in PDF
until sending
Additional remarks:
1. The backend should not contain anything which forces the conversion of
incoming PDF to PostScript, as Ghostscript understands PDF as well.
2. We should propose my suggested architecture upstream, as it still allows
PostScript as input and conversion of the incoming data
It mostly makes sense, except for one important detail: The assumption
about input format being PDF is wrong, because CUPS-PDF is meant to
*convert* input documents into PDF e.g. I can 'cat' an ASCII text file
to 'lpr' and it comes out as PDF.
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So, for your above proposal to work, condition #1 would have to be the
input format is not PDF instead.
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Title:
cups-pdf should not convert PDF
Martin-Éric, due to the filter mechanisms of CUPS the data format
arriving at cups-pdf is always PostScript or PDF. The upstream PPD file
of cups-pdf forces CUPS to turn everything into PostScript, by omitting
any cupsFilter line which defaults to
*cupsFilter: application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 -
If I understood correctly, what you're saying is that CUPS itself would
handle conversion of any format into PDF (i.e. ASCII via text2pdf and
PostScript via ps2pdf) before formatting the printable document via
pdf2pdf according to the settings of whichever PPD is currently used and
then sending
Yes, CUPS turns everything to PDF (at least on Debian and Ubuntu), by
using the filters texttopdf, imagetopdf, and pstopdf. In most cases
these filters are not used at all as practically all desktop
applications send print jobs in PDF. texttopdf usually only kicks in if
a system admin wants to
** Changed in: cups-pdf (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Triaged
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Title:
cups-pdf should not convert PDF print jobs to PS then to PDF
To
On the last UDS we have decided to finally deprecate PostScript as the
(former) standard print job format, due to the fact that all standard
applications send print jobs in PDF format now and that the CUPS filters
(in /usr/lib/cups/filter/) are moving from CUPS to OpenPrinting upstream
now. The
Using a filter other than Ghostscript would probably be suitable, just
as long as it remains configurable. The main complain that people had
with the old PDF Workflow patch was that it completely disabled CUPS-
PDF's output formating configurability.
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Status: New = Confirmed
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Title:
cups-pdf should not convert PDF print jobs to PS then to PDF
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Title:
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This test case is the PDF output from Firefox. It displays correctly in
evince and acroread. The select is selectable and can be copy and pasted
from the PDF.
** Attachment added: firefox.pdf
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-pdf/+bug/820820/+attachment/2253581/+files/firefox.pdf
This is the cups-pdf output after running:
lpr -P PDF firefox.pdf
It does no display correctly in evince or acroread (images are black).
Text can not be copy and pasted from evince or acroread.
** Attachment added: cups-pdf-output.pdf
This is caused by bug 817049.
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This is more than just bug 817049. As Adrian pointed out, the resulting
PDF files are often degraded (e.g. I sometimes experience shifted
contents where something at the very top or bottom is missing on the
printout since it was shifted outside the printer's range.
Converting everything including
I already modified the cups-pdf package some time ago to use a straight
PDF workflow without detour through PostScript but this was apparently
changed back to allow certain configurable options. Then I have given up
on this package, also because most apps/desktop toolkits have their own
PDF export
In Oneiric I have switched CUPS' pdftops filter from Poppler to
Ghostscript. Please try whether this helps.
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Title:
cups-pdf should not convert
There are two sides to this story. Those who only use pure PDF documents
and who need something to print them to a spool, and those who actually
want to be able to manipulate the output via Ghostscrpt first. The main
issue with the PDF workflow patch was that it prevented those who want
to
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