Bug#886335: addendum

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

On Fri 05 Jan 2018 at 01:10:52 +0100, SZABO Zsolt wrote:

> I think, that the bug is related to the utility gstoraster as described here
> (it does not recognise PJL encapsulated, PostScript document text
> starting with "\033%-12345X@PJL JOB"):
> 
> https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/slackware-cups-can%27t-detect-file-type-4175605111/

This is a possibility. It would still be useful to have the asked-for
error_log though. Also view the file sent to CUPS with less and let us
have its first ten lines.
 
> As a dirty hack I replaced the last line of the gstopdf script (in
> /usr/lib/cups/filter) calling gstoraster for
> 
> /usr/bin/ps2pdf - -
> 
> and it works. (However, some options like jobid, user, copies, peculiar
> options etc. are not passed, so some more complex print jobs may
> not so be processed as expected.)
> 
> And I have not tested the local printings yet (from the linux host)...

Might it not be easier to get Windows to send plain PostScript?

Regards,

Brian.