Bug#861876: cups-filters: imagetoraster messes up output

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

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thanks



On Fri 05 May 2017 at 11:37:30 +0200, Karl Beckers wrote:

> unfortunately, I'm not sure what led to the situation. It may have been 
> some dist-upgrade in the past after which I hadn't tried the functionality. 
> 
> I have an image that I scanned and am trying to print via CUPS using splix 
> and tracked down my issues with that to the output of imagetoraster being wrong. 
> 
> The output of scanimage either as a pnm or tiff looks good, here. But when 
> I use imagetoraster and try to process it further it gets printed out distorted.
> If I view the result of imagetoraster with rasterview, it looks distorted already.
> 
> a.out is the original image as scanned
> b.out is the result of imagetoraster created like this:
> cat /scratch/a.out | /usr/lib/cups/filter/imagetoraster - - "copy button pressed" 1 - > /scratch/b.out

Thank you for your report, Karl.

You appear to have done everything right here, but would you test again
on a testing/unstable installation, preferably with a different scanned
image.

Thanks,

Brian.