Bug#712949: cups-filters’ pdftops filter refuses to output PostScipt LanguageLevel 3
Package: cups-filters
Version: 1.0.34-3
Severity: important
Tags: upstream
[Bastien asked me to report this an an important bug. -JimC]
Revision 6868 of upstream cups-filters bzr introduced code to prevent pdftops
from generating level3 postscript. Ever.
Ubuntu bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277404
and poppler bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19640
are referenced in the commit.
Certain HP printers were unable to handle the level3 postscript
generated by poppler’s (and probably xpdf’s) pdftops(1), which can be
used by the cups-filters pdftops filter. The problem seems to be
specific to CID-keyed fonts.
HP refused to change their PPDs, which advertize level3 support, on
the grounds that the level3 ps generated by apple’s osx worked fine.
cups-filters should not limit itself to generating level1 and level2;
instead the PPD files for the affected HP printers should be edited
to specify level2.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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