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system-config-printer package

  1. Bug #1095498
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 1095498

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jimav (james-avera) wrote : Re: Printing PDFs with images is hideously slow

I'm really sorry, my previous post comment #13) was a mistake. The problem is not fixed after all, and with the .ppd file changed to have LanguageLevel: "2" the driver still generates a PS Level 3 data for the printer (I think I used the wrong queue name before and unintentionally used a pcl driver instead of foomatic/Postscript).

I used the technique described in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems to capture the data sent to the printer, and it is still PS level 3. Here's what I did:

1. Set "FileDevice yes" in /etc/cups/cups-files.conf
2. lpadmin -p test2 -E -v file:/tmp/printout -P /etc/cups/ppd/HP3030_Postscript.ppd
      # HP3030_Postscript is the name of my foomatic/Postscript queue
3. Edited /etc/cups/ppd/test2.ppd to say *LanguageLevel: "2"
4. restart cups
5. rm -f /tmp/printout
6. lpr -P test2 googlemap.pdf
7. vim /tmp/printout

The resulting file still begins with %!PS-Adobe-3.0

Doing lpadmin -p test2 -o pdftops-renderer-default=pdftops; restart cups
makes no difference, I still get %!PS-Adobe-3.0