201219 - xprint is generating non-conformant Postscript

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Printing: Xprint, defect)

Description

[Jim Gottlieb]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021215
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.3)

The Postscript produced by xprint (Sun-supplied Xprt + GISWxprintglue) is
confusing CUPS.  According to CUPS' author, xprint's output "has a LOT of
problems and does NOT conform to the Adobe Document Structuring Conventions or
EPS File specification."

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.print a web page through CUPS
2.CUPS' pstops filter gets confused by non-conforming PS
3.

Actual Results:  
The printer hung and needed a power-off reset.  Although printing the file to
the printer in raw mode DID print, xprint should still produce correct
Postscript such that it can be properly manipulated by other programs.

Comment 1

[Bjørn Kutter]

Jim Gottlieb - can you attach a sample print job to this bug?

Comment 2

[Jim Gottlieb]

Attachment: shows non-conformant PS output

Michael Sweet, the author of CUPS, says "send them our way if they have
questions about what is broken in the print file."

Comment 3

[Bjørn Kutter]

this sounds like a Xprt postscript driver bug and is not related to mozilla
it may be better to move the bug report to http://xprint.mozdev.org/ where it
would fit much better and would get much more attention...

Comment 4

[Roland Mainz]

This "bug" should be filed at http://xprint.mozdev.org/
BTW: The PostScript driver output of Xprt was changed and improved a lot in the
last half year... this bug may be even a WORKSFORME... :)

Please reopen if you disagree...