https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c1 Juergen Weigert changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jw@suse.com --- Comment #1 from Juergen Weigert 2011-12-13 14:40:51 UTC --- See OBS home:jsmeix ghostscript for a starting point -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c3 --- Comment #3 from Juergen Weigert 2011-12-13 21:17:01 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=467304) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=467304) scan of the yast printer test page -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c5 Juergen Weigert changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|jw@suse.com | --- Comment #5 from Juergen Weigert 2011-12-14 09:02:06 UTC --- Yes, regressions. color worked, a2ps & yast test page were fine with 9.00 -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c8 Johannes Meixner changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.d | |e --- Comment #8 from Johannes Meixner 2012-01-11 10:57:36 UTC --- Stefan Brüns, I accepted your submitrequest 99379 "Update to GS 9.04" for Printing:ghostscript/ghostscript-library Many Thanks for your valuable contribution! Now Ghostscript version 9.04 with all our patches and changes is available in the openSUSE build service development project "Printing:ghostscript". I appreciate it if anyone likes to test Ghostscript 9.04 from "Printing:ghostscript" but note that packages in development projects are only for testing, without any guarantee or warranty, and without any support. As an extreme example, this means if your complete computer center crashes because of those packages, it is only your problem. On the other hand this does not mean that those packages are known to be terrible broken but they are not thoroughly tested so that any unexpected issue can happen. -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c10 --- Comment #10 from Juergen Weigert 2012-01-11 12:09:41 UTC --- (In reply to comment #8)

I appreciate it if anyone likes to test Ghostscript 9.04 from "Printing:ghostscript"

Printing:ghostscript currently has no packages for 12.1, could you add the target, please? -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c12 Reimar Imhof changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |tuxuser@quantentunnel.de --- Comment #12 from Reimar Imhof 2012-01-11 21:56:23 UTC --- Here I've got the same issues as described by Juergen Weigert in comment #2: - yast test page prints black (like scan in comment #3) - prints from libre office / okular / acroread are grayscale -> color is missing. - didn't try a2ps - tried cups test page -> printed black page These are all regressions compared to gs 9.00. Problems solved compared to gs 9.00: - okular: Printing pdf including true type fonts (here MS Arial) now prints pdf including the ttf texts. With 9.00 the ttf text was missing. - LibreOffice: Printing spread sheet with ttf text now prints that text. - But - as mentioned above - print is grayscale printer is epson stylus using "printer-escpr 1.0.3-1lsb3.2 (Seiko Epson Corporation LSB 3.2)" - driver (gpl). system is openSuse 11.4 64 bit with ghostscript packages from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Printing:/ghostscript/openSUSE_11.... Hope this helps -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c14 --- Comment #14 from Reimar Imhof 2012-01-14 22:17:31 UTC --- At http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691922 I've seen something quite similar. That's why I tried to take latest cups/gdevcups.c from ghostscript git repo. With that file the problems I described in comment #12 are gone. But now there is a new one: After system start a first print just prints the beginning of a page. When printing a document with 2 pages I get two pages with just the beginnings. I don't know, if I just broke something by taking the youngest gdevcups.c but keep everything else like I found it in http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Printing:/ghostscript/openSUSE_11.... I tried to integrate a younger complete snapshot into the ghostscript-library.rpm but didn't have any success (compile problems). Perhaps you - Johannes - could build a new 9.0.5-pre-snapshot? -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c16 --- Comment #16 from Johannes Meixner 2012-01-17 08:54:05 UTC --- I am afraid I am not at all an expert in this area so that I cannot help with such issues in Ghostscript. Reimar Imhof, to make sure that it is not caused by one of our many patches in our package "ghostscript-library" you may test with my test package "ghostscript" from "home:jsmeix" which is plain upstream Ghostscript without any patch. If it still happens with plain upstream Ghostscript it is a bug in upstream Ghostscript and then please file a bug report at upstream Ghostscript via http://bugs.ghostscript.com/ so that there is a direct contact between you who has the issue and who can tell about it and the Ghostscript upstream authors who have the expert knowledge to fix such issues. For my HP JaserJet 1220 b/w PostScript/PCL printer both "ghostscript-library" and "ghostscript" print well using the Ghostscript output device "ljet4" and the HPIJS driver wich uses the Ghostscript output device "ijs" and the HPCUPS and Gutenprint drivers wich use the Ghostscript output device "cups". When installing "ghostscript" from "home:jsmeix" there is currently a RPM conflict with "ghostscript-mini" which you can ignore e.g. via: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- # rpm -e --nodeps ghostscript-library # rpm -Uhv --nodeps ghostscript-9.04-1.1.*.rpm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please read https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home%3Ajsmeix -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c18 --- Comment #18 from Reimar Imhof 2012-01-21 23:01:24 UTC --- Now I gave it a second try - and the obs a first one... First test is looking good. When I find some time I'll try your ghostscript-library package -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c21 --- Comment #21 from Johannes Meixner 2012-02-03 09:40:34 UTC --- Now there is an upstream bug report: http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692831 Mark Fairbairn, many thanks for filing it! -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c23 --- Comment #23 from Mark Fairbairn 2012-02-06 02:37:35 UTC --- and also http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692831#c18 -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c25 --- Comment #25 from Johannes Meixner 2012-02-07 08:51:39 UTC --- See https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/924631/comments/10 --------------------------------------------------------------------- This was indeed a Ghostscript problem which is not fixed in Ghostscript 9.04, but it is fixed in 9.05. --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c27 --- Comment #27 from Johannes Meixner 2012-02-07 15:07:21 UTC --- As time permits... -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c Johannes Meixner changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED OS/Version|SUSE Other |openSUSE 12.2 -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c30 Frank Stulle changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |frank.stulle@web.de --- Comment #30 from Frank Stulle 2012-02-11 23:56:54 UTC --- I run OS 12.1 64bit and have an Epson SX525WD. The problem was that barcodes and similar would not print at all. For a test I downloaded gs9.05 from jsmeix and installed it. A first print failed saying /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster was not found. I set a symlink to gstoraster and now printing seems to work fine. I guess I will leave it like this for the moment and see if any other unexpected problem shows up. Many thanks for solving this! Frank -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c32 --- Comment #32 from Reimar Imhof 2012-02-12 21:00:26 UTC --- Here the new ghostscript is doing what I expect it to do. Best ghostscript that ever came to my openSuse 11.4. Thanks! Reimar -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c34 --- Comment #34 from Johannes Meixner 2012-02-14 08:40:46 UTC --- After the many good news I think I wait only a little bit and then I submit the plain upstream Ghostscript 9.05 as package "ghostscript" to the OBS "Printing" project. But I need to clean up RPM dependencies to make a smooth upgrade possible (in particular solve the RPM conflict with "ghostscript-mini"), see comment #28. -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c36 --- Comment #36 from Johannes Meixner 2012-02-14 09:53:13 UTC --- An official update for openSUSE 12.1 requires a Ghostscript version upgrade from 9.04 to 9.05 of our current official "ghostscript-library" package in our current official development project "Printing:ghostscript" but this package has very many patches which may make it time consuming and annoying to adapt all those patches to the new Ghostscript version. This is what Stefan Brüns did, see comment #8. Perhaps a version upgrade from 9.04 to 9.05 is easy for "ghostscript-library" in "Printing:ghostscript"? Currently (and probably never in the foreseeable future) I do not have the time to work on overcomplicated packages like our "ghostscript-library" with its tons of patches. What is even more important (from my point of view): Overcomplicated packages with tons of patches are a nightmare to maintain and I think no volunteer would like do this so that overcomplicated packages could be a main reason why there are not more volunteers who contribute to openSUSE which could be a main handicap for the whole openSUSE project. In short: Why wasting our own time with tons of our own patches when the plain upstream software "just works"? And if the plain upstream software has issues, why not fix issues together with upstream so that all users will get them fixed? -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c38 Johannes Meixner changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |jw@suse.com --- Comment #38 from Johannes Meixner 2012-02-16 08:31:56 UTC --- For "ghostscript" in "home:jsmeix" I split those files which require X11 stuff into a "ghostscript-x11" sub-package (currently only /usr/lib/ghostscript/9.05/X11.so) so that the "ghostscript" main-package can be installed without X11 (e.g. needed on server systems which run without X11). This means: You need the packages "ghostscript" and "ghostscript-x11" from "home:jsmeix" which replace the official packages "ghostscript-library" and "ghostscript-x11", see https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=ghostscript&project=home%3Ajsmeix Juergen Weigert, please report if ghostscript 9.05 from "home:jsmeix" sove the printing regressions which you reported in comment #2 -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c40 --- Comment #40 from Johannes Meixner 2012-02-28 09:17:46 UTC --- The graphviz-plugins package is the only one which "BuildRequires ghostscript-mini" but "ghostscript-mini" is now outdated. Therefore I filed submitreqest 107335 for graphviz-plugins in "graphics" so that graphviz-plugins "BuildRequires ghostscript" which is backward-compatible because ghostscript-library also provides "ghostscript". -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c42 Juergen Weigert changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED InfoProvider|jw@suse.com | --- Comment #42 from Juergen Weigert 2012-03-04 15:43:46 UTC --- (In reply to comment #41)

Juergen Weigert, a reminder: Please test Ghostscript 9.05 from "Printing" over the weekend.

ghostscript-9.05-5.1.i586 from home:jsmeix / openSUSE_12.1 passed all my tests flawlessly today. Johannes, thank you! * color prints have color * yast test page is correct * simple a2ps works as expected * barcodes auf amazon retouren -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c44 Johannes Meixner changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |ohering@suse.com --- Comment #44 from Johannes Meixner 2012-03-30 12:25:48 UTC --- *** Bug 750679 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750679 -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c46 --- Comment #46 from Johannes Meixner 2012-03-30 12:57:41 UTC --- Regarding fonts for Ghostscript (see comment #43): In contrast to what I wrote in comment #43 I decided to have in "Printing" a new package called "ghostscript-fonts" to have its name in compliance with upstream Ghostscript, see /usr/share/ghostscript/9.05/doc/Fonts.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Ghostscript's free fonts ... Unix ghostscript-fonts-std-#.##.tar.gz Basic ghostscript-fonts-other-#.##.tar.gz Miscellaneous --------------------------------------------------------------------- Accordingly Ghostscript's free fonts packages should be called "ghostscript-fonts-std" and "ghostscript-fonts-other" (i.e. no name change in the openSUSE ghostscript font packages). Because both sources are provided by Ghostscript upstream I have them both as sub-packages of the new main-package called "ghostscript-fonts" in "Printing". Again I ask all who like to contribute to openSUSE to test the new Ghostscript fonts packages in "Printing". This means to remove the old installed "ghostscript-fonts-std" and "ghostscript-fonts-other" packages and replace them with the new "ghostscript-fonts-std" and "ghostscript-fonts-other" packages from "Printing". I appreciate any feedback. Because I am not at all a font expert I appreciate in particular explicit feedback when the new "ghostscript-fonts-std" and "ghostscript-fonts-other" packages from "Printing" also work o.k. for you (I didn't detect an issue but this does not mean much because I am not at all a font expert). What I did to test whether or not it seems to work o.k. is according to "5 How Ghostscript gets fonts when it runs" in /usr/share/ghostscript/9.05/doc/Fonts.htm that I run those two commands: for f in $( grep -o '^/[-,[:alnum:]]*' \ /usr/share/ghostscript/9.05/Resource/Init/Fontmap.GS ) ; \ do echo "($f\n) print $f findfont 10 scalefont setfont \ 10 100 moveto ($f) show showpage" ; \ done | gs -dNOPAUSE &>/tmp/ghostscript-simple-testfonts.out for f in $( grep -o '^/[-,[:alnum:]]*' \ /usr/share/ghostscript/9.05/Resource/Init/Fontmap.GS ) ; \ do echo "($f\n) print $f DoFont" ; \ done | gs -dNOPAUSE /usr/share/ghostscript/9.05/lib/prfont.ps - \ &>/tmp/ghostscript-full-testfonts.out For me there have been no errors - i.e. all fonts were found or at least replaced in a way which looks reasonable for me. Currently I have no package for ftp://ftp.kapella.gpi.ru/pub/cyrillic/psfonts/gs_rusfonts.tar.bz2 so that users who need those fonts must keep their existing "ghostscript-fonts-rus" package installed. -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c50 --- Comment #50 from Bernhard Wiedemann 2012-04-05 17:00:10 CEST --- This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration: This bug (735824) was mentioned in https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/112711 Factory / ghostscript -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c52 --- Comment #52 from Johannes Meixner 2012-04-18 13:52:22 UTC --- Only for my own information: Request: #114415 delete: openSUSE:Factory/ghostscript-library Message: Delete ghostscript-library from openSUSE:Factory (related to bnc#735824). This deleterequest should be accepted or declined together with submitrequest 114410 and submitrequest 114412. Furthermore when submitrequest 114410 is accepted, the ghostscript-mini link package in openSUSE:Factory must be changed to point to no longer to ghostscript-library but to the new package ghostscript. The new package ghostscript Provides and Obsoletes ghostscript-library. -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c54 --- Comment #54 from Johannes Meixner 2012-04-18 15:11:17 UTC --- Regarding comment #46 "no package for ftp://ftp.kapella.gpi.ru/pub/cyrillic/psfonts/gs_rusfonts.tar.bz2": - This ftp server is no longer freely accessible (login required and logging in as anonymous fails). - Our current gs_rusfonts.tar.bz2 sources in ghostscript-library in Printing:ghostscript does not contain any hint about the license of the files therein (and I do not understand Russian if there was something in its docs/rusps.txt source file). - In the ghostscript-9.05 sources "grep -i 'rusfonts'" does not find anything, in particular /usr/share/ghostscript/9.05/doc/Fonts.htm does not mention it. - Googling for "gs_rusfonts -opensuse" does not show any URL for a current upstream location. Therefore (at least for now) I can no longer package gs_rusfonts because I totally fail to find out what its license is, see https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Printing ------------------------------------------------------------------- Of course only really free software can be accepted in the "Printing" project. ... We will not risk any legal issue for openSUSE and its users and contributors when software where the legal state is not clear would be accepted. ------------------------------------------------------------------- I would appreciate any legally valid information regarding the license of gs_rusfonts which would enable me to provide it as free software for openSUSE. -- 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=735824 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824#c56 Johannes Meixner changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED Target Milestone|--- |Factory --- Comment #56 from Johannes Meixner 2012-04-25 10:28:07 UTC --- Request: #114410 submit: Printing/ghostscript -> openSUSE:Factory Request: #114412 submit: Printing/ghostscript-fonts -> openSUSE:Factory Request: #114415 delete: openSUSE:Factory/ghostscript-library Those requests have been accepted so that there is now only Plain upstream Ghostscript plus Ghostscript's free fonts in openSUSE:Factory. Accordingly I close the issue as "FIXED". FYI: Regardless whether or not the issue is closed as FIXED does not hinder us to continue here (but it is no longer seen as an open issue in openSUSE). I.e. please continue to provide feedback here in case of problems with plain upstream Ghostscript. -- 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.