Bug#990210: printer-driver-cups-pdf: produces empty output with gs exit 256, gs from log works
Severity: critical
Printing now always produces an empty pdf for me.
It indeed is the 'setpdfwrite' operator that's responsible for this.
Attached patch from arch fixes it:
https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/packages/cups-pdf/trunk/remove-deprecated-ghostscript-setpdfwrite-operator.diff
--- cups-pdf-3.0.1/src/cups-pdf.h 2017-02-24 16:31:00.901661190 +0100
+++ cups-pdf-3.0.1/src/cups-pdf.h.new 2021-04-06 17:05:57.553854742 +0200
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
{ "AnonDirName", SEC_CONF|SEC_PPD, { "/var/spool/cups-pdf/ANONYMOUS" } },
{ "AnonUser", SEC_CONF|SEC_PPD, { "nobody" } },
{ "GhostScript", SEC_CONF|SEC_PPD, { "/usr/bin/gs" } },
- { "GSCall", SEC_CONF|SEC_PPD, { "%s -q -dCompatibilityLevel=%s -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=\"%s\" -dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -c .setpdfwrite -f %s" } },
+ { "GSCall", SEC_CONF|SEC_PPD, { "%s -q -dCompatibilityLevel=%s -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=\"%s\" -dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -c -f %s" } },
{ "Grp", SEC_CONF|SEC_PPD, { "lp" } },
{ "GSTmp", SEC_CONF|SEC_PPD, { "TMPDIR=/var/tmp" } },
{ "Log", SEC_CONF|SEC_PPD, { "/var/log/cups" } },
--- cups-pdf-3.0.1/extra/cups-pdf.conf 2017-02-24 16:30:18.476524443 +0100
+++ cups-pdf-3.0.1/extra/cups-pdf.conf.new 2021-04-06 17:06:26.364602843 +0200
@@ -250,9 +250,9 @@
### Key: GSCall (config)
## command line for calling GhostScript (!!! DO NOT USE NEWLINES !!!)
## MacOSX: for using pstopdf set this to %s %s -o %s %s
-### Default: %s -q -dCompatibilityLevel=%s -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="%s" -dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -c .setpdfwrite -f %s
+### Default: %s -q -dCompatibilityLevel=%s -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="%s" -dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -c -f %s
-#GSCall %s -q -dCompatibilityLevel=%s -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="%s" -dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -c .setpdfwrite -f %s
+#GSCall %s -q -dCompatibilityLevel=%s -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="%s" -dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -c -f %s
### Key: PDFVer (config, ppd, lptopions)
## PDF version to be created - can be "1.5", "1.4", "1.3" or "1.2"
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