[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 29060] New: pdftops loses grid lines CancelOk

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29060

           Summary: pdftops loses grid lines CancelOk
           Product: poppler
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: x86 (IA32)
        OS/Version: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: blocker
          Priority: medium
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: poppler-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: komputes at gmail.com


The following bug is being reported upstream on behalf of the OP.
Originally posted here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604724


We discovered that cups in lucid does not correctly print certain PDFs when
printing from the command line with lpr or as a shared printer from preview in
OS X. The same file prints correctly with cups on hardy. This issue occurs with
a variety of different printers.

I tracked down the problem to /usr/bin/pdftops by running the pdf through the
filters that cups does according to the log. /usr/bin/pdftops is called by the
cpdftocps filter.

This pdftops is installed from poppler-utils:
$dpkg-query -S /usr/bin/pdftops
poppler-utils: /usr/bin/pdftops

After running the pdf through each step of the filter, I opened it with evince.
After running through pdftops, evince showed exactly what I see when I print
the file.

Interestingly, if I print from evince or acroread, all the lines are printed
correctly. I think they are converting the file to postscript themselves before
sending it to cups.

I will attach the file that shows this behavior.

The pdftops provided by the cups package does not exhibit this problem.
$ dpkg-query -S /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops
cups: /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: poppler-utils 0.12.4-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jul 12 12:33:43 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: poppler

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