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

2009-03-21 Thread James Cloos
[I posted this to the poppler bug, but it may be of interest here, too. -JimC] The reason the level3 ghostscript generates does not cause the problem is that ghostscript’s level3 is essentially the same as its level2; only the name of the procset is different. Xpdf, OTOH, does generate different

[Bug 1317599] Re: Evince doesn't show "fi"-ligatures in a pdf file

2014-05-30 Thread James Cloos
The bug is in fontconfig. Fontconfig added the Gyre font names to the list of suitable replacements for the base PostScript fonts because the shapes and metrics are compatible. What they didn’t notice (until the bug reports started) is that the Gyre authors use the names /f_i, /f_l, /f_f, /f_f_i

[Bug 1313865] [NEW] Need to update 6.6p1 to 6.6.1p1

2014-04-28 Thread James Cloos
Public bug reported: A patch for 6.6p1 was posted on the openssh list fixing a bug in the 25519 negotiation and changing the reported version to 6.6.1p1. Future versions of openssh, version 6.6.1p1 itself, and other ssh software, such as libssh, will refuse to speak 25519 to anything which identi

[Bug 1476705] Re: postscript printer hideously slow in some cases (pdftops)

2015-07-22 Thread James Cloos
pdftops and pdftocairo are both from poppler. pdftops is based on the original xpdf code and does not use cairo at all. modern cairo tries to limit the size of tranparency groups to just where it is needed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1476705] Re: [SOLVED] postscript printer hideously slow in some cases (pdftops)

2015-07-24 Thread James Cloos
pdftocairo is limited by the fact that cairo only handles sRGB. It is therefore unsuitable any time color is important, eg if the pdf uses cmyk or named colors or icc profiles, et cetera. It is fine for printing most web pages, since the browser likely also is limited to sRGB. And for simple per

[Bug 1476705] Re: [SOLVED] postscript printer hideously slow in some cases (pdftops)

2015-07-25 Thread James Cloos
Gimp is also, for now, limited to srgb, so anything coming from gimp will work fine with cairo. And, for a postscript printer, jpegs should be converted directly to ps, not via pdf, so that wouldn't matter either. But if you used a workflow which used, say, AdobeRGB as the colour working space, a

[Bug 1242321] Re: USB 3.0 Harddrive not recognised

2015-03-12 Thread James Cloos
This is still present in vivid. Switching to the performance govenor, removing the drive and re-adding it worked around the bug. Something must be blocking power to the xhci when the cpu is saving power...? This is also present on non-Ubuntu systems, including ones running Linus’ latest kernels.

[Bug 1258646] [NEW] tzdata upgrade dies, killing apt w/o fixing the tty, when /etc/localtime is protected

2013-12-06 Thread James Cloos
Public bug reported: When /etc/localtime is protected from manipulation, such as with the immutable flag — something which is often required when leasing virtuals, to keep the vendors’ frameworks from screwing with the filesystem — an update to tzdata will crap out, killing dpkg and apt, which lea

[Bug 1313865] Re: Bad bignum encoding for curve25519-sha...@libssh.org

2014-04-30 Thread James Cloos
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1310781 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1310781 I missed the earlier report. I went from memory on the package version number; ssh -V reports 6.6.1p1 but as you found dpkg says 1:6.6p1-4. I hope that helps the case for getting it into trusty. That is t

[Bug 1357920] Re: Xerox Phaser 8560DN reboots as soon as I bring up the Print requester

2014-08-22 Thread James Cloos
The cups log shows that you configured the printer as an IPP printer. (Or that something did so for you.) Try configuring it as a socket printer (sending the postscript to port 9100). You may need to use the printer’s web interface or control panel to enable port9100 if you have disabled it. You

[Bug 1357920] Re: Xerox Phaser 8560DN reboots as soon as I bring up the Print requester

2014-08-22 Thread James Cloos
Ah. I didn’t intially read every comment. I suspect that the method cups now uses to discover network attached printers is what triggers the crash/reboot. It will ipp-query any it finds which advertise ipp capability in lieu of requiring PPD files to specify the printer’s capabilities. That is

[Bug 1272508] [NEW] will postfix 2.11 be packaged in time for trusty’s freeze

2014-01-24 Thread James Cloos
Public bug reported: It was released more than a week ago, and I see that the import freeze is less than a fortnight away. 2.11’s benefits are significant enough that it SHOULD be included, even if it doesn’t make sid or jessie by then. Will it be? ** Affects: postfix (Ubuntu) Importance: