Package: cups-filters Version: 1.0.34-3 Severity: important Tags: upstream [Bastien asked me to report this an an important bug. -JimC]
Revision 6868 of upstream cups-filters bzr introduced code to prevent pdftops from generating level3 postscript. Ever. Ubuntu bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277404 and poppler bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19640 are referenced in the commit. Certain HP printers were unable to handle the level3 postscript generated by poppler’s (and probably xpdf’s) pdftops(1), which can be used by the cups-filters pdftops filter. The problem seems to be specific to CID-keyed fonts. HP refused to change their PPDs, which advertize level3 support, on the grounds that the level3 ps generated by apple’s osx worked fine. cups-filters should not limit itself to generating level1 and level2; instead the PPD files for the affected HP printers should be edited to specify level2. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
