Re: Input Filter and LPD

Marcus MERIGHI <mcmer-openbsd@tor.at> wrote:

> punosevac72@gmail.com (Predrag Punosevac), 2020.06.08 (Mon) 23:57 (CEST):
> > It seems that there is another change on 6.7 perhaps among packages
> > which broke printing for me. I am using built in LPD to print onto the
> > network connected Brother HL-5250DN. I am getting row PostScript output
> > on the printer instead of the document.
>
> I think I've seen the same. Though I could still print simple text
> files, like "cat foo.txt | lpr".

Hi Marcus,

Thanks for confirming the issue. I am 95% sure that this is related to
the upgrade of

cups-filters

package.

Namely, there are two packages involved with my printing setup.

a2ps and cups-filters

a2ps has not been changed since 6.6 relase and it is still the same old

a2ps-4.14p15

However, cups-filters is significantly "upgraded". OpenBSD 6.6 was
shipped with cups-filters-1.25.6. OpenBSD 6.7 was shipped with
cups-filters-1.27.4p0. Looking through internet archive and the commit log

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/print/cups-filters/Makefile

cups-filters-1.27 branch was nothing but the trouble. I am not sure why
upstream quickly ditched cups-filters-1.26. When I say trouble I really
mean it. This thing broke printing on CentOS and Ubuntu not just on
OpenBSD.


I upgraded my package to cups-filters-1.27.5 and that didn't fix the
problems for me. I tried yesterday to go back to the last 1.25 version

cups-filters-1.25.13

I was unable to compile program quickly. It requires more work. I am
surprised to find out that I am the first one reporting the issue as I
would expect more people to use LPD than CUPS.

I fixed cups-filter package probably would be worth of stable binary
package effort.


Best,
Predrag



> Printing PDFs from xournal failed, with raw PS output as you describe.
>
> The machine is currently not available, probably online this afternoon,
> will post the configs then.
>
> I guess you want to avoid it, but cups still works on that machine.
>
> Marcus