On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 08:16:09PM +0000, Steve Fosdick wrote:
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 14:13 +0000, Chris G wrote:
Does anyone have any suggestions as to where to look for a fix or a workaround? I'm in the process of submitting a bug at the CUPS web site as I can't find anything relevant there.
Does converting the text to postscript via enscript or a2ps etc. first before sending to lpr then specifying '-l' (IIRC) to tell lpr the file is already formatted help?
Well yes, sort of, in that I get more legible output. The default a2ps output is in a box in 'half a page' format though which is a little odd. It's a way round the problem though, thanks.
I have in fact got a sort of fix from the CUPS developers, the problem is due to misconfiguration of the CUPS filters in Ubuntu 9.10. I have edited the file /usr/share/cups/mime/texttopdf.convs and have commented out the text/plain line. The misconfigured filter is then disabled and the defaults work OK.
By the way sorry I asked this question twice, I was just confused about where I had asked it before.