Bug#928738: closed by Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com> (Re: Bug#928738: printer-driver-cups-pdf Still Produces PDF Files that Lack Searchable Text and are Unusable with pdftotext)

[193@quantentunnel.de]

Just want to point out that the solution on removing and reinstalling
printer-driver-cups-pdf didnt worked for me on my buster system which i
upgraded from stretch. i have this issue since then and was happy to
find this solution which unluckily didnt work for me.

i managed to find a very old print job in the pdf qeue which maybe the
cause for this failure in the update process. "cancel" this old job and
repeting the solution didnt work either.

so i followed the advice in the debian wiki
https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDebugging and issued "lpadmin -p
<print_queue> -o pdftops-renderer-default=pdftocairo" to the (in my case
named) queue "PDF"

that solves the problem. lpoptions -d PDF shows the correct output and
the printing is as expected.

thanks to neil and brian who directed me in the right direction :-)

kind regards

steve