Re: [Bug 277404] Re: hp laserjet postscript text print does not print some characters

2011-09-23 Thread Roger
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 06:10:44PM -, Till Kamppeter wrote: >Roger, note that Gentoo and Ubuntu have completely different filter >chains, Gentoo uses probably the original PostScript-centric model of >upstream CUPS and Ubuntu (and Debian) use a PDF-centric model. So >problems you find in Gent

Re: [Bug 277404] Re: hp laserjet postscript text print does not print some characters

2011-09-23 Thread Roger
I'm not a Ubuntu fan, Gentoo here -- all from source with latest and greatest -- but will download Oneiric i386 live cd tonight and give it a try.

Re: [Bug 277404] Re: hp laserjet postscript text print does not print some characters

2011-09-23 Thread Roger
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 07:04:16AM -, Till Kamppeter wrote: >Which Ubuntu version are you using? Can you try Oneiric (Live CD)? It >should not use Poppler for converting PDF to PostScript any more. I'm not a Ubuntu fan, Gentoo here -- all from source with latest and greatest -- but will down

Re: [Bug 277404] Re: hp laserjet postscript text print does not print some characters

2009-03-14 Thread rbmorse
Till Kamppeter wrote: > rbmorse, please check on an Intrepid box whether the package in > -proposed fixes the problem for Intrepid. We need this information to > check the integrity of the package. Note also that the Intrepid and > Jaunty packages of CUPS use different solutions for this problem. >

Re: [Bug 277404] Re: hp laserjet postscript text print does not print some characters

2009-01-18 Thread rbmorse
On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 14:26 +, Till Kamppeter wrote: > This is persistent until the next time when the CUPS package gets > updated. > There may be another work around: Open the file: /etc/cups/ppd/{nameofdriverfile}.ppd with a root-permissioned text editor. About line number 70, in the sect

Re: [Bug 277404] Re: hp laserjet postscript text print does not print some characters

2009-01-18 Thread rbmorse
On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 14:26 +, Till Kamppeter wrote: > This is persistent until the next time when the CUPS package gets > updated. > Thank you, again, for all your help on this. RBM -- hp laserjet postscript text print does not print some characters https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277404

Re: [Bug 277404] Re: hp laserjet postscript text print does not print some characters

2009-01-18 Thread rbmorse
On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 12:55 +, Till Kamppeter wrote: > You can do > > sudo perl -p -i -e "s/level3/level2/g" /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops > > as a workaround for the time being. > Thank you. This works for me. Is this persistent or do I need to run it each time the system is restarted? R

Re: [Bug 277404] Re: hp laserjet postscript text print does not print some characters

2008-10-14 Thread rbmorse
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 07:03 +, Till Kamppeter wrote: > Can you tell exactly which text editor you have used? > The problem manifests with applications that work in "text mode," such as: Gedit 2.24.0 Printing checks with Gnucash 2.2.6 and 2.2.7 (but, reports are fine) Printing mail from Evolu

Re: [Bug 277404] Re: hp laserjet postscript text print does not print some characters

2008-10-10 Thread rbmorse
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 13:58 +, Till Kamppeter wrote: > Try the following: > > Redirect your print queue to a file: > > cupsctl FileDevice=yes > lpadmin -p -v file:/tmp/printout.ps > > Then print a file which causes the problem and attach the resulting > /tmp/printout.ps to this bug report.

Re: [Bug 277404] Re: hp laserjet postscript text print does not print some characters

2008-10-10 Thread rbmorse
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 07:25 +, Till Kamppeter wrote: > There is no difference in the PPDs concerning the PostScript code which > gets sent to the printer. Only differences are the removal of unneeded > UIConstraints lines and the addition of a missing colon. So it is > strange that the PPD comi

Re: [Bug 277404] Re: hp laserjet postscript text print does not print some characters

2008-10-04 Thread rbmorse
Till Kamppeter wrote: > What you are doing is only replacing your printer's PPD file by the > version which came with Hardy. > > Can you please attach this PPD file (and also the current non-working > Intrepid one) to this bug report? Then one could compare and find out > which change broke the wo