Bug#1060057: returning to pending CUPS-PDF issue
la 8.3.2025 klo 19.28 наб (nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz) kirjoitti:
> On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 07:10:40PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > la 8.3.2025 klo 18.03 наб (nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz) kirjoitti:
> > > I just explicitly updated cups-pdf cups ghostscript on sid and
> > > lp -dPDF all.ps
> > > still produced an empty file (attached).
> > Can I get a copy of that PS file?
> It's attached to the OP on this bug:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=1060057;filename=all.ps.zst;msg=5
Noted.
> > Also, can you try another thing for me?
> >
> > cat .bashrc | lp -dPDF
> >
> > Does that produce a readable PDF for you? (I don't need a copy - I'm
> > just trying to see whether we might be having problems with converting
> > PS specifically).
> The vast majority of postscripts, and all text files, work,
> and I use cups-pdf basically all the time in my workflow.
>
> Both of
> cat .bashrc | lp -dPDF
> curl https://lfs.nabijaczleweli.xyz/0012-groff-mdoc-*q-spacing/2022-10-23-stty.1-preprint/a4.ps | lp -dPDF
> work, as expected, on bookworm and sid.
That's already more encouraging.
> It's just this
> (and some other similarly(?)-broken(?)/-funnily-configured(?))
> document.
So we're dealing with a handful of corner-case PS files that, for
whatever odd reason, fail to convert. That's a lot harder to debug.
Let's see if upstream (in CC) might have any idea.
Martin-Éric
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