Bug 1187353 - CUPS-PDF printer always prints out only a single blank page
Summary: CUPS-PDF printer always prints out only a single blank page
Status: IN_PROGRESS
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Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: Current
Hardware: x86-64 Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Stephan Kleine
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Reported: 2021-06-15 12:57 UTC by Ralf Brinkmann
Modified: 2021-07-20 09:50 UTC (History)
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Cups-PDF-File of Suse-Homepage, printed with Firefox. (991 bytes, application/pdf)
2021-06-28 14:32 UTC, Guenter Stoehr 		Details
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Description Ralf Brinkmann 2021-06-15 12:57:35 UTC 
Since last dist-upgrade "cups-pdf" delivers a pdf-file with a single blank page on every print to the CUPS-PDF printer.

Tumbleweed last upgrade     2021-06-08
cups-pdf version:           3.0.1-1.16
ghosscript version:         9.54.0-1.1

Changing either config-file "/etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf" or source-file  "cups-pdf.h" to remove the command line "-c .setpdfwrite" option did not help at all.

Compare:
Bug 1965717 - cups-pdf uses removed '.setpdfwrite' in GS call 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1965717
> BTW: The fix is to omit `-c .setpdfwrite`, this should work in most cases, unless you really need more memory and you do `-c 3000000 setvmthreshold`.
Comment 1 Carl Fletcher 2021-06-19 20:52:23 UTC 
I can confirm this issue.
Also using Tumbleweed KDE
As far as I can tell it started when ghostscript moved to 9.54
I use the cups-pdf feature quite regularly as some of my apps don't have a pdf print feature built in.

Last time I printed and it worked as follows:
Tuesday, 1 June 2021 20:45:35 UTC
GPL Ghostscript 9.53.3

Now with 9.54 it broken
Comment 2 Ralf Brinkmann 2021-06-21 17:34:58 UTC 
Is the recent OpenSuse Tumbleweed source tree for Cups-pdf available somewhere?
Comment 3 Carl Fletcher 2021-06-27 20:26:30 UTC 
I solved the problem by mounting an older .iso of tumbleweed in to my repos and switching the ghostscript and ghostscript-X11 to the older versions
9.52-2.2

Now it works

So the problem lies there
Comment 4 Guenter Stoehr 2021-06-28 14:32:06 UTC 
Created attachment 850599 [details]
Cups-PDF-File of Suse-Homepage, printed with Firefox.

Same issue here. All CUPS-PDF-Files are exactly 991 Bytes big. See attachment.
Comment 5 Guenter Stoehr 2021-06-28 14:34:02 UTC 
Comment on attachment 850599 [details]
Cups-PDF-File of Suse-Homepage, printed with Firefox.

Same issue here. Every CUPS-PDF-File is exactly 991 Bytes big.
Comment 6 Guenter Stoehr 2021-06-28 14:36:16 UTC 
Once more: Same issue here. Every CUPS-PDF-File is exactly 991 Bytes long. See attachment.
Comment 7 Ralf Brinkmann 2021-06-28 16:40:11 UTC 
In lack of an elder offline install image I added the repo:

> openSUSE:Leap:15.3
> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.3/repo/oss/

did reset the cups-pdf setup and switched back to GS and GS-X11 Version 9.52-3.

No success with GS 9.52 - same negative result.
Comment 8 Luigi Baldoni 2021-07-20 09:21:57 UTC 
SR approved and forwarded.
Comment 9 OBSbugzilla Bot 2021-07-20 09:50:06 UTC 
This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (1187353) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/907278 Factory / cups-pdf