Hi, Brian You guys are great! After changing 66 to 65, and a "sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart", the output PDF looks beautiful again! And the output PDF file name also gets friendly. When it's 66, the output file always named _stdin_.pdf overwriting previously generated one. Now it's 65, the output PDF file is named after the original source file, i.e. processing tmp.c gets a tmp.pdf.
Thanks again, Brian and Bastien, for your great help! Hope you can solve this bug fundamentally soon. If any more tests I can do, let me know. Attached are PDFs generated with cost factors 66 and 65. You can see the deference. Xiaolin -- 王晓林 On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Brian Potkin <claremont...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Thu 13 Jun 2013 at 17:22:20 +0800, 王晓林 wrote: > > [Snipped: A very useful account of a testing procedure] > > > In a short word, all the PS in /var/spool/cups look very good; all the > PDF > > in ~/PDF look ugly. In the attachment, you can find > > > > 1. d00107-001, the PS file in /var/spool/cups > > 2. d00107-001.pdf, ps2pdf output > > 3. d00109-001.pdf, the error_log > > This error_log (and the other one posted) show the PostScript file > being filtered as follows: > > PS in ---> pstopdf ---> pdftopdf ---> pdftops ---> then to cups-pdf > > This is the PDF centric work flow. In principle there is nothing wrong > with this chain being used. > > In practice an exception is made when the input is PostScript and the > output is being sent to a PostScript printer. The *cupsfilter line in > cups-pdf's PPD is commented out, so it is seen as a PostScript printer. > > The filter chain is then: > > PS in ---> pstops---> then to cups-pdf > > and this filtering sequence is used if /usr/share/cups/mime/mime.convs > contains > > application/postscript application/vnd.cups-postscript 65 pstops > > In cups 1.5.x the cost factor for pstops is indeed 65. In cups 1.6.2 the > cost factor is 66 (bug?). > > The immediate solution to your 'bad' PDFs is to alter '66' to '65'. > However, I do not think this addresses the fundamental bug. Xiaolin, > would you please do some more testing? Basically, would you comment on > the appearance of the PDFs when text and PDF documents are sent to > cups-pdf with cost factors of 65 and 66? > > Regards, > > Brian. >
_stdin_.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
tmp.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
