[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 18711] When Poppler generates PostScript from PDF files the output is shifted on some PostScript printers

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Thu Nov 27 02:30:25 PST 2008


http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18711





--- Comment #5 from Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com>  2008-11-27 02:30:24 PST ---
The CUPS pdftops filter which is used here (Ubuntu Intrepid) is the one of CUPS
1.4 and this one is a simple wrapper around the /usr/bin/pdftops filter which
comes with Poppler. The command line which CUPS uses with the Brother PPD
(PostScript Level 3) is

pdftops -level3 -paperw <width> -paperh <height> <input file> -

So the for the attached PDF file (testpage-a4.pdf, evince displays it
correctly) for example we would have

pdftops -level3 -paperw 595 -paperh 842 testpage-a4.pdf -

The output file is attached (testpage-a4-pstops.ps).

Version info:

till at till-laptop:~/ubuntu/cups/bzr/debian-trunk$ pdftops -v
pdftops version 3.00
Copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC
till at till-laptop:~/ubuntu/cups/bzr/debian-trunk$ dpkg -l | grep libpoppler
...
ii  libpoppler3                                0.8.7-1                         
       PDF rendering library
ii  poppler-utils                              0.8.7-1                         
       PDF utilitites (based on libpoppler)
till at till-laptop:~/ubuntu/cups/bzr/debian-trunk$ 

I have also opened testpage-a4.pdf with evince and printed to a file, set A4 in
the Page Setup and chosen PostScript as output format. The result I have
attached as testpage-a4-evince.ps.


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