Re: strange gs problem: unicode encoding problem with pdf (?)
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 16:33:53 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 1. Juni 2008 schrieb Florian Kulzer:
> > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 16:31:26 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> > > > > > > > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 23:47:06 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> > > > > > > > > Hello,
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > I have a pdf file here which
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > - Displays perfectly with kpdf
> > > > > > > > > - Does not print from kpdf. This is because gs fails with
> > > > > > > > > this file:
[...]
> > The error messages in one of your earlier mails show that you are using
> > the Lenny/Sid version of ghostscript (8.62), but your PPD file seems to
> > be outdated (it is from HPLIP 2.7.10; the current version of hpijs-ppds
> > is 2.8.4 in Lenny and 2.8.5 in Sid). Maybe upgrading and/or updating to
> > the newest PPD in the CUPS setup will fix the problem. (Sometimes it can
> > necessary to remove the printer and add it again with the newest
> > driver.)
>
> Thanks for spotting this. This improved the situation but did not fix it yet.
>
> A cupsys upgrade apparently does not replace the ppds for installed printers.
The relevant PPD file is copied to /etc/cups/ppd (and renamed according
to the CUPS designation for this printer) whenever a printer is
installed. This copy is not changed when the original PPD file is
subsequently updated during a package upgrade.
> I "changed" the printer using the localhost:631 web interface and tried two
> options (I also added a new test printer, but same result):
>
> *NickName: "HP LaserJet 6P Foomatic/hpijs, hpijs 2.8.4.2 - HPLIP 2.8.4"
> *NickName: "HP LaserJet 6P/6MP - PostScript Postscript (recommended)"
>
>
> And this brought a nice improvement:
>
> foomatic-rip -v --ppd /etc/cups/ppd/hplj6p.ppd ~/tmp.nobackup/KKA-DKB.pdf >log
> 2>err
>
> generates now a ps or pcl file (depending on the selected driver) in the "log"
> file.
>
> But still it does not print and there are a lot of indications to these 106
> pages!
>
> The pcl version goes into error the ps version prints the ps source code.
>
> Inspecting the err file, I still see the 106 pages and enscript as file
> converter:
>
> file converter command: enscript -G -M A4 -b "Page $%|
> rd@blackbox" --margins=36:36:36:36 --mark-wrapped-lines=arrow --word-wrap -p-
> --> This document is DSC-conforming!
I still don't like this invocation of enscript. I now ran enscript on a
1-page PDF and it tried to send 99 pages of garbage to my printer.
AFAIK, enscript is meant for plain text input only. So there is either a
problem with the filtering setup of CUPS (maybe caused by the PPD) or a
quirk in the PDF itself.
> And for the postscript version this is in agreement with the "log" file
>
> rd@blackbox:~$ tail log
> (32934) s
> 5 94 M
> (%%EOF) s
> _R
> S
> %%Trailer
> %%Pages: 106
> %%DocumentNeededResources: font Times-Roman Courier-Bold Courier
> %%+ font Times-Bold
> %%EOF
>
> The complete outputs (STDERR) of foomatic-rip are here
>
> http://alzental-castle.de/~rd/err.pclbackend
>
> and
>
> http://alzental-castle.de/~rd/err.psbackend
>
>
> > [...]
> >
> > > The file is not secret and I would be ok with sharing it to individual
> > > developers (without any formal agreement), but I would not want to post
> > > it unprotected on an web page. If you are interested I would send it to
> > > you in a private mail or send you an URL.
> >
> > I would rather not receive any sensitive information. Can you generate a
> > new file from the same form with bogus data filled in?
> >
>
> My bank is generating these PDFs for me. I cannot generate them with bogus
> data. Not sure if there would be a save way to edit a pdf file to remove my
> credit card data.
You can try to uncompress it with pdftk:
pdftk KKA-DKB.pdf output uncompressed.pdf uncompress
It should be possible to edit uncompressed.pdf with any text editor and
remove all sensitive information (unless your bank uses an unusual
encoding or protected the content in some other way).
> BUT, the data are not very sensitive. All web-shops I pay with the card have
> the data. I just do not want to publish it on the web...
I think you also do not want to send it to somebody whom you only know
from a linux mailing list.
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