Bug#519265: cups prints text stretched horizontally 64.5%
Package: cups
Version: 1.3.9-15
When I submit a plain text document to cups, I get output that
is stretched horizontally a significant amount. If I ask for 16.45
characters per inch, the letters come out right, but indented lines
look funny.
Looking at cups, it's running text through texttopdf | pdftops | pstops.
This seems ridiculous, given that there's a texttops filter that works
fine.
Oddly, though, adding am /etc/cups/local.convs file that looks like
text/plain application/postscript 1 texttops
doesn't seem to disable the texttopdf filter. In fact, texttopdf is
not mentioned anywhere under /etc/cups, and it's still used. WTF?
Only if I rename /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf to texttopdf.DONTUSE
and restart (not force-reload) cups does it use texttops and produce
usable output.
Debian/unstable, i386, HP LaserJet with postscript support, printing via
socket:9100.
(A second bug is that texttops insists on including Courier
and Courier-Bold fonts which every single PostScript printer
since the original LaserWriter has in ROM already. Moving
/usr/share/cups/fonts/Courier* to a different location produces perfectly
functional, and much smaller, output. But this should probably be a
different bug report.)
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