[Foomatic] Broken Acrobat5 / foomatic-rip / ghostscript

Dan Devine dannyboy259 at comcast.net
Thu Feb 12 09:05:24 PST 2004


Hi,

I'm having trouble with Acrobat Reader 5.08.  Files not printing and getting
error messages in the /var/log/cups/error_log file.

Working:
Open Office
Mozilla
direct text output ah-la "cat text.txt | lpr"

Broken:
Acrobat Reader

I'm pretty new to filing bug reports, I'll try to provide all the relevant
stuff.	here's my system setup:

Build: Fedora Core 1, patched with newest updates every day
System: i386
foomatic: foomatic-3.0.0-21.3; Omni-foomatic-0.9.0-4; used with HP-LJ 4MV
ghostscript: ghostscript-7.07-15.1; ghostscript-fonts-5.50-9
cups: cups-1.1.19-13; cups-libs-1.1.19-13
Fonts: fonts supplied with FC1 and msttcorefonts-1.3-4


Error messages from /var/log/cups/error_log (clipped from log):


D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:15 -0800] [Job 54]
================================================
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:15 -0800] [Job 54]
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:15 -0800] [Job 54] File: <STDIN>
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:15 -0800] [Job 54]
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:15 -0800] [Job 54]
================================================
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:15 -0800] [Job 54]
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:15 -0800] [Job 54] Reading PostScript input ...
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:15 -0800] [Job 54] --> This document is DSC-conforming!
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:15 -0800] [Job 54] Job claims to be DSC-conforming, but
"%%BeginProlog" was missing before first line with another  "%%Begin..."
comment (is this a TeX/LaTeX/dvips-generated PostScript file?). Assuming start
of "Prolog" here.


Then further down.....

D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:15 -0800] [Job 54] Starting renderer
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:15 -0800] [Job 54] JCL: <job data>
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:15 -0800] [Job 54]
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:15 -0800] [Job 54] renderer PID kid4=3404
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:15 -0800] [Job 54] renderer command: gs -q -dPARANOIDSAFER
-dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=- -sDEVICE=omni -sDevice Name=HP_LaserJet_4V_4MV
-sproperties=" form=na_letter_8.50x11.00in tray=TRAY_CASSETTE media=MEDIA_PLAIN
resolution=600x600 printmode=PR INT_MODE_1_ANY dither=DITHER_STUCKI_DIFFUSION
orientation=portrait HardwareScaling=1" -
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:15 -0800] [Job 54] perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:15 -0800] [Job 54] perl: warning: Please check that your
locale settings:
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:15 -0800] [Job 54] LANGUAGE = (unset),
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:15 -0800] [Job 54] LC_ALL = (unset),
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:15 -0800] [Job 54] LANG = "c-"
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:15 -0800] [Job 54] are supported and installed on your
system.
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:15 -0800] [Job 54] perl: warning: Falling back to the
standard locale ("C").
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:15 -0800] [Job 54] foomatic-gswrapper: gs
'-dPARANOIDSAFER' '-dBATCH' '-dNOPAUSE' '-sOutputFile=| cat >&3' '-sDEVI
CE=omni' '-sDeviceName=HP_LaserJet_4V_4MV' '-sproperties=
form=na_letter_8.50x11.00in tray=TRAY_CASSETTE media=MEDIA_PLAIN resolution=6
00x600 printmode=PRINT_MODE_1_ANY dither=DITHER_STUCKI_DIFFUSION
orientation=portrait HardwareScaling=1' '/dev/fd/0' 3>&1 1>&2
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:16 -0800] [Job 54] GNU Ghostscript 7.07 (2003-05-17)
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:16 -0800] [Job 54] Copyright (C) 2003 artofcode LLC,
Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:16 -0800] [Job 54] This software comes with NO WARRANTY:
see the file PUBLIC for details.
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:16 -0800] [Job 54] Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n021003l.pfb... 2451868 107 6575 1662616 356238
0 done.
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:17 -0800] [Job 54] Loading NimbusSanL-Regu font from
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n019003l.pfb... 2806732 138976 7 1682712 367446
0 done.
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:17 -0800] [Job 54] Scanning /usr/share/fonts for fonts...
6 files, 6 scanned, 0 new fonts.
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:17 -0800] [Job 54] Saw EOF!
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:17 -0800] [Job 54] Error: /invalidfont in -dict-
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:17 -0800] [Job 54] Operand stack:
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:17 -0800] [Job 54] DPHHFC+Symbol-Identity-H  
--dict:7/10(G)--   Font   DPHHFC+Symbol-Identity-H   --dict:7/10(G)- -	
DPHHFC+Symbol-Identity-H
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:17 -0800] [Job 54] Execution stack:
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:17 -0800] [Job 54] %interp_exit   .runexec2  
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_p ush  
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push
  1   3   %oparray_pop	 1   3	 %oparray_pop	1    3	 %oparray_pop	1   3  
%oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- 
 2   %stopped_push   --no stringval--	3   8	%oparray_pop   3   8  
%oparray_pop   --nostringval--	 --nostringval--   --nostringval--   7	 9  
%oparray_pop   --nostringval--	 7   9	 %oparray_pop	--nostringval--  
--nostringval--
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:17 -0800] [Job 54] Dictionary stack:
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:17 -0800] [Job 54] --dict:1073/1123(ro)(G)--  
--dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:103/200(L)--	 --dict:36/89(L)--   --dict
:78/160(ro)(L)--   --dict:63/78(ro)(L)--   --dict:8/25(L)--  
--dict:27/35(ro)(L)--	--dict:17/17(ro)(G)--
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:17 -0800] [Job 54] Current allocation mode is local
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:17 -0800] [Job 54] Last OS error: 2
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:17 -0800] [Job 54] GNU Ghostscript 7.07: Unrecoverable
error, exit code 1
renderer return value: 1-0800] [Job 54]
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:17 -0800] [Job 54] renderer received signal: 1
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:17 -0800] [Job 54]
D [12/Feb/2004:09:14:17 -0800] [Job 54] Closing renderer


I don't know how to do any more....  I'm available to help debug under
appropriage guidance with this, please contact me via e-mail if there are any
questions, we could also meet on the IRC to perform any test to further
identify problem...


dannyboy259 at comcast.net


Thanks,

Dan Devine



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