*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 447961 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/447961
This is definitely not a problem in Debian stable, I can't speak for
Debian testing or Sid.
This may be acceptable on a desktop, where users work in PDF and
Postscript, but not for a production print server, and exactly why I
have STOPPED using Ubuntu server in production.
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 16:47 +0000, Stew Ellis wrote:
> More testing. Suggested fix sent to me in private email. It definitely
> has to do with the flow of filters.
>
> My above suggestion is definitely a kluge. You should not have to lie
> to the cups system about the font width. Someone else emailed me
> privately with a different kluge that involved commenting out lines in
> /usr/share/cups/mime/texttopdf.convs for text/plain and for text/html.
> I did that but lp'ed a simple sh script and it was in the 6 cpi format
> again. To stop Karmic cups from munging text files you would have to
> comment out every kind of text file type listed in that file. When all
> are commented out then text files would be sent to the printer without
> conversion, which is what he and I want, but rather than frustrate
> whatever part of the filter chain is looking in texttopdf.convs for what
> to do, I would rather have the printing system check if it is a
> textfile, then do no additional filtering and send direct to the printer
> for those printers that can print text without it being rasterized
> first.
>
> One thing I notice is that none of the openSuSEs that I have run in the
> last several years has a texttopdf.convs file, while both versions of
> Ubuntu (linuxmint version of 7.04 and current 9.10) have the file. cups
> worked properly in 7.04 with the same convs file as in the current
> version. printers.conf in Karmic has 3 filter commands for each defined
> printer, whereas none of SuSE 10.1 and 11.1 and 7.04 have filter
> directives in printers.conf. I have tried to read the cups manuals, but
> have not found any discussion of default handling of text files.
>
> Is this a problem with Ubuntu only or also upstream to Debian?
>
> Long time since I have done any serious debugging. What is the best set
> of tools to try to trace when and where filters are being used and what
> they are chaining to?
>
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Matt Warnock <[email protected]>
RidgeCrest Herbals, Inc.
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text prints in wide font, errors logged
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