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List:       cups
Subject:    Re: [cups.general] Alternative pdftops filter does not work any more
From:       Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-02-23 17:31:16
Message-ID: 47C05864.70403 () gmail ! com
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Michael R Sweet wrote:
> Till Kamppeter wrote:
>> ...
>> So to fix this problem we have the following possibilities:
>>
>> 1. Replace poppler-utils by xpdf-utils.
>> 2. Patch poppler-utils with the "-cfg" functionality taken from xpdf-utils
>> 3. Use a Ghostscript-based PDF filter. Note here that the script [1] 
>> needs some improvement to support the PDF-filter-related CUPS options
>> 4. Return to CUPS' original PDF filter (needs more space on distribution 
>> CDs and requires more security updates as it duplicates XPDF/Poppler code)
> 
> 5. Use the CUPS 1.4 PDF filter, which wraps either the Xpdf or
>     Poppler pdftops commands.
> 

Thank you very much. I have applied your filter (with some patches, see 
also http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2716) to the CUPS packages of Ubuntu 
and Debian now.

    Till

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