https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795934 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795934#c Jiaying ren changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jren@suse.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |jsmeix@suse.com |ovo.novell.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795934 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795934#c2 Johannes Meixner changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Found By|--- |Community User InfoProvider| |Joseph.Comfort@asu.edu Summary|Printing through |Printing PDFs fails on |ghostscript fails on |Brother HL-5340D |Brother HL-5340D | --- Comment #2 from Johannes Meixner 2013-01-03 15:31:45 CET --- The bug's subject "Printing through ghostscript fails on Brother HL-5340D" and its initial description in comment#0 "Brother HL-5340D does not have a driver" seem to contradict each other because when no driver is used, usually Ghostscript is not called but the PostScript is sent directly to the printer, see "Printer drivers: Make the printer print" at http://en.opensuse.org/Concepts_printing In your case your printer fails to process the PostScript and prints a PostScript error message. It seems the switch from PostScript to PDF as the standard print job format has become the topmost reason for various new printing issues. This switch is advocated by the OpenPrinting workgroup of the Linux Foundation and the CUPS author, see "PDF as standard print job format" http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting See also "PDF: The future common printing format" at http://en.opensuse.org/Concepts_printing For my personal opinion see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732442#c5 At least in the foreseeable future there will be more PDF printing issues in particular with "special PDF features". For example transparency in PDF (in PostScript there is no transparency), see in particular http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_%28graphic%29#Transparency_in_PDF --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PDF transparency is a very complex model, its original specification by Adobe being over 100 pages long. ... The fact that the PDF transparency model is so complicated means that it is not well supported. This means that RIPs and printers often have problems printing PDFs with transparency. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Basic PDF printing works and worked all the time because PDF is and was always a supported print job format. But the zillions of possible settings and features is what never did and still does not work as well with PDF as it does with PostScript - compare "Background Information" at http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:How_to_Report_a_Printing_Issue When you print a PDF from a PDF viewer application it depends what the PDF viewer application sends to CUPS. For example when you print a PDF from the Adobe Reader, the Adobe Reader itself converts the PDF to PostScript so that the Adobe Reader sends PostScript to CUPS. Often the Adobe Reader works best to print PDF to that at least as a workaround one should use the Adobe Reader to print PDF (regardless that the Adobe Reader is non-free software). When you print a PDF directly (i.e. not via the Adobe Reader), CUPS runs first of all /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops which is a wrapper that calls /usr/bin/pdftops that actually converts PDF to PostScript and /usr/bin/pdftops belongs to the poppler-tools RPM. In contrast /usr/bin/pdf2ps that also converts PDF to PostScript is a bash script that calls Ghostscript to actually do the conversion. Perhaps your printer only supports PostScript level 1 or 2 so that you may have to call pdf2ps with "-dLanguageLevel=1" or "-dLanguageLevel=2" see the "Usage" info when you call pdf2ps without arguments. Regarding your comment#1 "using a CUPS+gutenprint driver for the Brother HL5140D, I could lpr .pdf and .ps files" In this case Ghostscript is called together with the gutenprint driver to make the printer-specific data but the gutenprint driver makes PCL and not PostScript and that PCL works on your printer, see "Printer drivers: Make the printer print" at http://en.opensuse.org/Concepts_printing Regarding your comment#1 "I can not print a document from the web (I use firefox)" I think this particular issue is a duplicate of bnc#795582 for which a poppler update is meanwhile available. Joseph Comfort please install the poppler update and provide feedback if printing via the gutenprint driver works again also from Firefox on your Brother HL5140D. For the poppler update "rpm -q --changelog poppler-tools | head" must show those entries: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Sat Dec 22 2012 stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de - avoid division by zero when using origpagesizes option (bnc#795582) * Sat Sep 29 2012 zaitor@opensuse.org - Add poppler-fix-postscript-error-setprintermode.patch, fix printing with postscript capable printers that fail in some cases (bnc#774627). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795934 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795934#c3 --- Comment #3 from Joseph Comfort 2013-01-04 04:00:38 UTC --- The update to poppler-tools came after my testing and bug report, so the messages and fixes crossed. I got and installed the update, and it appears that the various problems I reported are now fixed. The divers for HL5140 appear to work for the HL5340. Even the HL5340 PPD file from Brother appears to work also. Thank you. openSUSE 12.2 is good to go for me. One clarification on my original post, which might not have been clear. While there is no HL5340 driver option in the SuSE packages for setup in CUPS, a Brother BR5340_2_GPL.tar.gz file, which is a PPD, comes with the printer. This file was copied to /usr/share/cups/model/manufacturer-PPDS/brother, where the CUPS setup routine finds it and can use it. With the fix to poppler-tools, it seems reasonable to include this driver file in the distribution. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.