Bug 592338

Summary:	net-print/cups-filters-1.11: provide a pstopdf symlink
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Manuel Lauss 2016-08-28 17:31:16 UTC

latest net-print/cups-filters-1.11 removed the "pstopdf" filter, which, apparently, is now supposed to be provided by ghostscript-gpl [1].
This manifests in the following error in cups' error_log when I try to print a PDF in KDE's okular:

E [27/Aug/2016:13:52:55 +0200] lj1200: File \"/usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstopdf\" not available: No such file or directory
E [27/Aug/2016:13:52:55 +0200] [Job 72] Unable to start filter "pstopdf" - No such file or directory.
E [27/Aug/2016:13:52:55 +0200] [Job 72] Stopping job because the scheduler could not execute a filter.

This is most easily fixed by providing a /usr/libexec/cups/filters/pstopdf as a symlink to gstopdf in the same directory:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 555 Aug 27 13:35 /usr/libexec/cups/filter/gstopdf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   7 Aug 28 19:13 /usr/libexec/cups/filter/pstopdf -> gstopdf

Since gstopdf belongs to ghostscript-gpl, and internally calls gstoraster, which also belongs to ghostscrip-gpl, this symlink should be created by the ghostcript-gpl package.


[1] http://bzr.linuxfoundation.org/loggerhead/openprinting/cups-filters/revision/7480

Comment 1 Manuel Lauss 2016-08-28 17:34:47 UTC

Okay, my previous statement was wrong:

latest cups-filters merged the pstopdf filter into gstoraster, but provides a gstopdf wrapper.  There should also be a symlink to gstopdf called pstopdf.

Comment 2 Alex Xu (Hello71) 2016-08-31 12:35:36 UTC

I'm pretty sure that you need to also upgrade your (probably gutenprint) PPD.

Comment 3 Manuel Lauss 2016-08-31 13:08:32 UTC

I only upgraded cups-filters and made the missing symlink by hand. Printing works as expected again. I use hplip btw.