Bug#701954: new discoveries

[David Griffith <dave@661.org>]

Regarding the problem of my prints to a Brother printer being offset, I 
found this page: 
http://selig.ws/hejdo/en/computers/linux/brother-printing.html

It describes my problems exactly.  The solution does not require fiddling 
with potentially proprietary source code, but instead a modifies CUPS. 
Trying to run this replacement cpdftocps with 
/usr/share/cups/mime/local.convs as suggested in the page doesn't work. 
In the "PostScript filters" section I see this:

application/vnd.cups-pdf        application/vnd.cups-postscript 22      pdftops

This appears to be the same as what executes cpdftocps in Squeeze.  There 
seems to be some sort of cost penalty involved here that doesn't let this 
line from local.convs from working:

application/vnd.cups-pdf application/vnd.cups-postscript 11 cpdftocps-mas

So I commented out the former line and added the latter line right 
underneath.  This fixes the print alignment problem

I don't know how this can be universalized or exactly why cpdftocps was 
removed.  Does this give you enough to go on to come up with a solution?

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David Griffith
dave@661.org