Bug#912993: It's a configuration issue, in fact an old bug has been fixed

[Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi>]

Volker,

Unless I'm mistaken, this is an upstream issue that affects filenames
of less than 32 characters. Can you check?

Martin-Éric

ke 16. lokak. 2019 klo 17.21 Alf (alf.debianfan@gmx.de) kirjoitti:
>
> I was hit by the same issue as well, getting cryptic suffixes appended
> the the filename.
>
> I carefully went through the configuration file and found:
>
> > ###########################################################################
> > #                                                                       #
> > # Filename Settings                                                     #
> > #                                                                       #
> > ###########################################################################
>
> ...
> > ### Key: TitlePref (config, ppd, lpoptions) ##  where to look first
> > for a title when creating the output filename ##  (title in PS file
> > or title on commandline): ##  0: prefer title from %Title statement
> > in the PS file ##  1: prefer title passed via commandline ###
> > Default: 0
> >
> > TitlePref 0
>
>
> which means that the filename is derived preferable from the title
> statement in the PS file. However the old beheaviour was to derive the
> output filename from commandline = input filename, strip the suffix and
> append "pdf" instead.
>
> So, I set that Option to "1"
> > TitlePref 1
>
> And now my PDF-printer works as it used to since years.
>
> I double checked with the configuration file in Stretch, ist is
> precisely the same as it shipped with Buster with regard to this option
> (default = 0), so actually in Stretch it was not performinmg as
> documentatoin says - thus buggy.
>