Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun 16 Mar 2014 at 13:28:32 -0500, Mark Copper wrote:
>
>> Please see here for the zip file:
>> straitcity.com/cups_debug_log.zip
>
> wget http://straitcity.com/cups_debug_log.zip
>
> It's only 9k in size! We've had off-topic threads larger than that. :)
>
>> The job 8841 succeeded and was generated from gv. The job 8842 failed
>> and was generated from the Iceweasel viewer.
>
> For Job 8842 you sent a PDF:
>
> I [15/Mar/2014:09:17:53 -0500] [Job 8842] File of type application/pdf queued by "mark".
>
> The CUPS filters spring into action and everything does well until
> Ghostscript is called upon to complete the final rendering stage before
> sending the job to the printer. Here is what it is asked to do:
>
> D [15/Mar/2014:09:17:53 -0500] [Job 8842] Ghostscript command line:
> /usr/bin/gs -dQUIET -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dNOINTERPOLATE \
> -sDEVICE=cups -sstdout=%stderr -sOutputFile=%stdout -sMediaType=Direct \
> -r300x300 -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=0 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=0 \
> -dcupsBitsPerColor=1 -dcupsColorOrder=0 -dcupsColorSpace=3 \
> -dcupsCompression=-1 -scupsPageSizeName=Custom -I/usr/share/cups/fonts -c -f -_
>
> The unhealthy bit is
>
> -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=0 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=0
>
> Ghostscript is being requested to produce a page with zero dimensions.
> It sniggers very loudly and confides in CUPS. CUPS is more sedate and
> sensible so (supressing a giggle) says:
>
> D [15/Mar/2014:09:17:53 -0500] [Job 8842] Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in setpagedevice
>
> The end result is that CUPS has no choice but to inform
>
> D [15/Mar/2014:09:17:53 -0500] PID 6570 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertolabel) stopped with status 1.
>
> You have encountered what is most probably a bug in the GTK printing
> dialogue, which is common to Iceweasel and Evince. I can reproduce it
> on a machine here with Iceweasel.
>
> A possible workaround (for which feedback would be appreciated) is:
>
> In Iceweasel's File/Page Setup choose 'Paper size' and set up a Custom
> Size and use it. It could very well be an existing page size, such as
> A4. You may have to reinstall the print queue and restart CUPS.
>
>> It's curious that the gv job calls the pstopdf filter but the viewer
>> job does not. Possible indication of malformed pdf?
>
> No; gv is sending PostScript to CUPS.
>
>
Excellent. Good work that.
I haven't got the suggested workaround to work on this system yet, but
will give it another go a little later.
Thank you; I realize your time is valuable.
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