I'm pretty sure this worked once. Printing a pdf from command line using lpr produces a 321 byte large file, that's it. Printing to the pdf printer from an Application (e.g. kpdf (yes, even printing a pdf from there) or openoffice) works fine. This may also affect printing to real printers with cups, but i don't have one around here to test it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge cups-pdf 2. or -P pdf some.pdf Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.13-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://192.168.0.75/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib alsa apm atm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl divx4linux dvd eds emacs emboss encode esd ethereal fam fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 icq imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline real ruby samba sdl slang smtp spell sse sse2 ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis win32codecs xinetd xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Created attachment 69877 [details] That's the kind of file you get when printing with lpr -P pdf some.pdf
(In reply to comment #0) > I'm pretty sure this worked once. Printing a pdf from command line using lpr > produces a 321 byte large file, that's it. Printing to the pdf printer from an > Application (e.g. kpdf (yes, even printing a pdf from there) or openoffice) > works fine. > This may also affect printing to real printers with cups, but i don't have one > around here to test it. > > ... What version of cups and cups-pdf do you have? Is the PDF you are printing a valid PDF file? I just tried it from my machine, and had no problem. I printed a PDF from command line (the PDF was one I printed the other day from a website). And tried it again with one produced from a Proffessor (probably on a mac). Both printed no problems.
(In reply to comment #2) > What version of cups and cups-pdf do you have? cups-1.1.23-r1 and cups-pdf 1.7.0a (running a stable arch=x86 here) > Is the PDF you are printing a valid PDF file? Yes. I can print from openoffice or kpdf, resulting in working pdf files. If i print a valid pdf (that works in kpdf and was created with openoffice's pdf export or printed via cups-pdf) via lpr -P pdf foo.pdf, it fails. The same file can be printed fine via kpdf. > I just tried it from my machine, and had no problem. I printed a PDF from > command line (the PDF was one I printed the other day from a website). And > tried it again with one produced from a Proffessor (probably on a mac). Both > printed no problems. I think it may have to do with some package being broken here that is used for command line printing. Too bad i have no clue which one.
Can you please try again with ver 2.0.3 when it hits the mirrors?
Installed net-print/cups-pdf-2.0.3, no config files to update, restarted cups to be sure, lpr -P pdf some.pdf -> produced exactly the same file. Sorry, didn't help. Btw, after uninstalling app-text/ghostscript-esp and installing app-text/ghostscript-gnu instead it produced a 714 byte file.
Created attachment 77148 [details] the 714 byte file
bummer :( Does it work with ghostscript-esp-8 instead? (currently masked)
well, I guess I cannot find a gentoo-solution to this. It also happens to me :( It is not an ebuild bug and I am not familiar with cups-pdf code. Please report this bug UPSTREAM if you are interested in getting it fixed.
