Bug#861876: cups-filters: imagetoraster messes up output
> On 10. Nov 2019, at 21:01, Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com> wrote:
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> tags 861876 moreinfo
> thanks
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> On Fri 05 May 2017 at 11:37:30 +0200, Karl Beckers wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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> Thank you for your report, Karl.
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> You appear to have done everything right here, but would you test again
> on a testing/unstable installation, preferably with a different scanned
> image.
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> Thanks,
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> Brian.
Hi Brian,
unfortunately, 2.5 yrs later, I have no part of that setup, anymore. Frankly, I don’t even remember how I worked around the issue.
If you wish to close this, feel free.
Cheers,
Karl.
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