*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 447961 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/447961
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 447961
Printer autoconfigured, but LPR prints with to wide font/cpi setting
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lpr prints text too large, can only fit 47 characters per line
https://bugs.la
This same bug was reported 2 weeks earlier as bug # 474962. There they
reported it as printing 6 CPI (47/80=.875). This report is much more
thorough. It still does not get at the fundamental problem which is why
is a rasterizer being called at all for printers such as my Lexmark or
the Brother a
Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since
this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work,
I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here.
Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!
** Changed in: cups (Ubuntu)
St
I got in touch with the CUPS developers and I have a quick and nasty
workaround which is to comment out the "text/plain" line in
/usr/share/cups/mime/texttopdf.convs.
What the CUPS developer said to me was (with some context from the
exchange) :-
>>> D [04/Dec/2009:17:42:00 +] PID 265
... cups.
aptitude search ~tprint-server shows that all listed pkgs are installed
expect:
p openprinting-ppds - OpenPrinting printer support -
PostScript PPD files
p openprinting-ppds-extra - OpenPrinting printer support - PostScript
PPD files
I see the bug on the
I can confirm the bug, with the same ppd on dapper, hardy, jaunty,
karmic:
CUPS_SERVER=cups-karmic lpr .profile
print 48 chars per / line, 49-79 are cut off, 80- chare wrapped to the
next line.
CUPS_SERVER=cups-jaunty lpr .profile
print 79 char/line, 80+ chars wrapped to next line. That how
** Attachment added: "Printer troubleshooting diagnostic output"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35873752/troubleshoot.txt
** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35873753/BootDmesg.txt
** Attachment added: "CupsErrorLog.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/358737
