Boy I almost missed this but then I saw the caps and apsfilter and I thought: "didn't I post something related???". Great job Raphael. You kick ass. http://lists2.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2001-Dec/0820.html mk
From: Juergen Braukmann
To: SuSE Linux English Subject: Re: [SLE] APSFILTER BUG: PATCH Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 10:58:10 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [202.58.118.7] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBDF840AA00404004310ECA3A760713200; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 03:08:26 -0800 Received: (qmail 15160 invoked by alias); 30 Dec 2001 11:07:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 15150 invoked from network); 30 Dec 2001 11:07:22 -0000 From suse-linux-e-return-85514-purpleshirt Sun, 30 Dec 2001 03:09:18 -0800 Mailing-List: contact suse-linux-e-help@suse.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes list-help: mailto:suse-linux-e-help@suse.com list-unsubscribe: mailto:suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com list-post: mailto:suse-linux-e@suse.com X-MIME-Notice: attachments may have been removed from this message X-Mailinglist: suse-linux-e Delivered-To: mailing list suse-linux-e@suse.com Message-ID: <3C2EE532.1575CB2E@ruhr-west.de> Organization: Power Penguin Club References: <200112300615.fBU6Ff114528@twist.frontis.net> Sender: brauki@forty.two X-AntiVirus: OK! AvMailGate Version 6.11.0.5 at marvin has not found any known virus in this email. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [de] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.10-4GB i686) Raphael Marmier schrieb:
I have identified the apsfilter related printing problem reported by
Purple Shirt on the 8 Dec. 2001, in the suse-english mailing list.
Due to a nasty bug at the beginning of apsfilter, printing of non
plain-ascii postscript is just impossible, as it gets interpreted as text (ironic, isn't it).
Apple MacOSX and probably others sends Postsript files which contains
special characters like null characters.
It took me two full days to pinpoint and fix (I had no previous
knowledge of lpd and apsfilter). However, the fix is quite straight-forward for someone who master apsfilter's internals, except, maybe, for a second bug that would still deprive french users and possibly others from printing.
I find it surprising that no one at SuSE seems to have taken any action
so far.
The following patch fixes both bugs. Of course, SuSE is free to use it
at once and publish the patched apsfilter for Yast Online Update ASAP ;)
to apply the patch, put it in /var/lib/apsfilter/ cd /var/lib/apsfilter/ patch -p0 < apsfilter-patch
Raphael Marmier raphael@marmier.net
Raphael,
which version of apsfilter needs the fix (or which SuSE version)? You should mail both the fix and a short problem discription to feedback@suse.com. The latter makes sure it finds it's way to the SDB.
Juergen
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