On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 2:29 PM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Mon 28 May 2018 at 18:20:13 -0500, Mark Copper wrote: > > > Having upgraded to Stretch, a file that I need to print no longer prints > > properly. (It did before.) > > > > I am sure the difficulty is so idiosyncratic no one here will have > > experienced it. So I'm not asking how to fix it specifically. Rather I'm > > looking for advice how to isolate the difficulty, generally speaking. > > What is offered in the printing section of the wiki could help. >
Thanks for this. I was unaware. The problem I'm seeing seems to be in the CUPS filter gstoraster. That is, all is well at the preceding step: # /usr/sbin/cupsfilter -p /etc/cups/ppd/Zebra.ppd -m application/vnd.cups-pdf -o orientation-requested=3 tag_generator.pdf > out.pdf Well, almost. It was necessary to include the "orientation-requested=3" option to keep the document from rotating. But at the next step, the document is laid on its side no matter the orientation requested: # /usr/sbin/cupsfilter -p /etc/cups/ppd/Zebra.ppd -m application/vnd.cups-raster out.pdf > out.ras Or, in more detail, # pdfinfo out.pdf Producer: PDF::API2 2.023 [linux] Tagged: no UserProperties: no Suspects: no Form: none JavaScript: no Pages: 1 Encrypted: no Page size: 90 x 144 pts Page rot: 0 File size: 14151 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.4 output of "/usr/sbin/cupsfilter -p /etc/cups/ppd/Zebra.ppd -m application/vnd.cups-raster out.pdf > out.ras" to standard error says this: DEBUG: argv[0]="cupsfilter" DEBUG: argv[1]="1" DEBUG: argv[2]="root" DEBUG: argv[3]="out.pdf" DEBUG: argv[4]="1" DEBUG: argv[5]="" DEBUG: argv[6]="out.pdf" DEBUG: envp[0]="<CFProcessPath>" DEBUG: envp[1]="CONTENT_TYPE=application/pdf" DEBUG: envp[2]="CUPS_DATADIR=/usr/share/cups" DEBUG: envp[3]="CUPS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/cups/fonts" DEBUG: envp[4]="CUPS_SERVERBIN=/usr/lib/cups" DEBUG: envp[5]="CUPS_SERVERROOT=/etc/cups" DEBUG: envp[6]="LANG=en_US.UTF8" DEBUG: envp[7]="PATH=/usr/lib/cups/filter:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin" DEBUG: envp[8]="PPD=/etc/cups/ppd/Zebra.ppd" DEBUG: envp[9]="PRINTER_INFO=cupsfilter" DEBUG: envp[10]="PRINTER_LOCATION=Unknown" DEBUG: envp[11]="PRINTER=cupsfilter" DEBUG: envp[12]="RIP_MAX_CACHE=128m" DEBUG: envp[13]="USER=root" DEBUG: envp[14]="CHARSET=utf-8" DEBUG: envp[15]="FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE=application/vnd.cups-raster" INFO: pdftopdf (PID 8482) started. INFO: gstoraster (PID 8483) started. DEBUG: OUTFORMAT="(null)", so output format will be CUPS/PWG Raster DEBUG: pdftopdf: Last filter determined by the PPD: rastertolabel; FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE: application/vnd.cups-raster => pdftopdf will not log pages in page_log. DEBUG: Color Manager: Calibration Mode/Off DEBUG: Calling FindDeviceById(cups-cupsfilter) DEBUG: Failed to send: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.NotFound:device id 'cups-cupsfilter' does not exist DEBUG: Failed to get find device cups-cupsfilter DEBUG: Calling FindDeviceById(cups-cupsfilter) DEBUG: Failed to send: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.NotFound:device id 'cups-cupsfilter' does not exist DEBUG: Failed to get device cups-cupsfilter INFO: Color Manager: no profiles specified in PPD DEBUG: Color Manager: ICC Profile: None DEBUG: Ghostscript using Any-Part-of-Pixel method to fill paths. DEBUG: Ghostscript command line: gs -dQUIET -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dNOINTERPOLATE -dNOMEDIAATTRS -sstdout=%stderr -sOutputFile=%stdout -sDEVICE=cups -dAdvanceDistance=1000 -r300x300 -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=90 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=162 -dcupsBitsPerColor=1 -dcupsColorOrder=0 -dcupsColorSpace=3 -dcupsCompression=-1 -dcupsRowStep=200 -scupsPageSizeName=w90h162 -I/usr/share/cups/fonts -c '<</.HWMargins[0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000] /Margins[0 0]>>setpagedevice' -f -_ DEBUG: envp[0]="<CFProcessPath>" DEBUG: envp[1]="CONTENT_TYPE=application/pdf" DEBUG: envp[2]="CUPS_DATADIR=/usr/share/cups" DEBUG: envp[3]="CUPS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/cups/fonts" DEBUG: envp[4]="CUPS_SERVERBIN=/usr/lib/cups" DEBUG: envp[5]="CUPS_SERVERROOT=/etc/cups" DEBUG: envp[6]="LANG=en_US.UTF8" DEBUG: envp[7]="PATH=/usr/lib/cups/filter:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin" DEBUG: envp[8]="PPD=/etc/cups/ppd/Zebra.ppd" DEBUG: envp[9]="PRINTER_INFO=cupsfilter" DEBUG: envp[10]="PRINTER_LOCATION=Unknown" DEBUG: envp[11]="PRINTER=cupsfilter" DEBUG: envp[12]="RIP_MAX_CACHE=128m" DEBUG: envp[13]="USER=root" DEBUG: envp[14]="CHARSET=utf-8" DEBUG: envp[15]="FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE=application/vnd.cups-raster" INFO: pdftopdf (PID 8482) exited with no errors. INFO: Start rendering... INFO: Processing page 1... INFO: Processing page 2... INFO: Rendering completed INFO: gstoraster (PID 8483) exited with no errors. Note that Ghostscript is called with page size 90 by 162. But when one views the output with rasterview, CUPS Raster Page Attributes: MediaClass = "" MediaColor = "" MediaType = "" OutputType = "" AdvanceDistance = 1000 AdvanceMedia = 0 Collate = 0 CutMedia = 0 Duplex = 0 HWResolution = [ 300 300 ] ImagingBoundingBox = [ 0 0 144 90 ] InsertSheet = 0 Jog = 0 LeadingEdge = 0 Margins = [ 0 0 ] ManualFeed = 0 MediaPosition = 0 MediaWeight = 0 MirrorPrint = 0 NegativePrint = 0 NumCopies = 1 Orientation = 0 OutputFaceUp = 0 PageSize = [ 144 90 ] Separations = 0 TraySwitch = 0 Tumble = 0 cupsWidth = 600 cupsHeight = 375 cupsMediaType = 0 cupsBitsPerColor = 1 cupsBitsPerPixel = 1 cupsBytesPerLine = 75 cupsColorOrder = CUPS_ORDER_CHUNKED cupsColorSpace = CUPS_CSPACE_K cupsCompression = -1 cupsRowCount = 0 cupsRowFeed = 0 cupsRowStep = 200 cupsNumColors = 1 cupsBorderlessScalingFactor = 1.000000 cupsPageSize = [ 144.000000 90.000000 ] cupsImagingBBox = [ 0.000000 0.000000 144.000000 90.000000 ] cupsInteger1 = 0 cupsInteger2 = 0 cupsInteger3 = 0 cupsInteger4 = 0 cupsInteger5 = 0 cupsInteger6 = 0 cupsInteger7 = 0 cupsInteger8 = 0 cupsInteger9 = 0 cupsInteger10 = 0 cupsInteger11 = 0 cupsInteger12 = 0 cupsInteger13 = 0 cupsInteger14 = 0 cupsInteger15 = 0 cupsInteger16 = 0 cupsReal1 = 0.000000 cupsReal2 = 0.000000 cupsReal3 = 0.000000 cupsReal4 = 0.000000 cupsReal5 = 0.000000 cupsReal6 = 0.000000 cupsReal7 = 0.000000 cupsReal8 = 0.000000 cupsReal9 = 0.000000 cupsReal10 = 0.000000 cupsReal11 = 0.000000 cupsReal12 = 0.000000 cupsReal13 = 0.000000 cupsReal14 = 0.000000 cupsReal15 = 0.000000 cupsReal16 = 0.000000 cupsString1 = "" cupsString2 = "" cupsString3 = "" cupsString4 = "" cupsString5 = "" cupsString6 = "" cupsString7 = "" cupsString8 = "" cupsString9 = "" cupsString10 = "" cupsString11 = "" cupsString12 = "" cupsString13 = "" cupsString14 = "" cupsString15 = "" cupsString16 = "" cupsMarkerType = "" cupsRenderingIntent = "" cupsPageSizeName = "w90h162" Note that width and height were transposed. ARGH!
