Thank you for mailing me the article. I have now succeeded to reproduce the problem and identified it as a bug of Ghostscript. It happens with both Ghostscript 8.71 as shipped with Maverick and Ghostscript 9.00 (to be released upstream soon). I have filed the following upstream bug report:
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691586 To reproduce the problem take the printing output of evince captured from the spool directory of CUPS (attached) and run it through the following command line: cat cv_libertine-evince.pdf | RIP_MAX_CACHE=256M PPD=/etc/cups/ppd /Stylus-Photo-RX500.ppd gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=cups -r720x360 -dcupsBitsPerColor=8 -dcupsColorSpace=0 -_ > out.raster A workaround for the time being run the following commands in a terminal window: cancel -a cupsctl RIPCache=auto ** Bug watch added: Ghostscript (AFPL) Bugzilla #691586 http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691586 ** Attachment added: "Offending PDF file, mangled by evince, to reproduce the bug on the command line" https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/628030/+attachment/1537006/+files/cv_libertine-evince.pdf ** Package changed: cups (Ubuntu) => ghostscript (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: ghostscript (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: ghostscript (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Also affects: gs-gpl via http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691586 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Cannot print from pdf, /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftoraster failed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/628030 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
