[Kde-print-devel] [Bug 142557] Poster command doesn't work; ghostscript's poster expects EPS but kprinter sends it PS

[Kurt Pfeifle]

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------- Additional Comments From pfeifle kde org  2007-03-09 15:07 -------
First of all: there is no Ghostscript "poster" command *at all*. The only "poster" utility I know of is an external tool (independent of Ghostscript). This is what KDEPrint uses.

Be aware that KDEPrint requires a patched version of poster (available from http://printing.kde.org/download/) -- however, AFAIK the upstream author of poster has accepted the KDEPrint patches into his sources quite some years ago already; so a newer "standard" poster should be OK.

Your quote of the man page is not correct (because it is incomplete). You cut off the decisive part: "...[a PS file]  normally  printing  on  a single page."

Your attachment 19887 (input) satisfies that requirement... hmmm.... and also, SUSE RPMs should work too (they ship the patched poster utility since quite a long time). [You are wrong in assuming that "poster" *requires* EPS -- it only requires EPS *OR* PostScript that prints on one page. It requires 1-page PS documents that comply to the "DSC" definition (Document Structuring Convenctions). However, it may be it is just "safer" to convert to EPS first...]

I notice that your original/input PS was created by OpenOffice.org. OOo is known for creating *non-DSC-compliant* PS code quite regularly.

How did you create your attachment 19889? Did you run "poster" on the command line?


I can't test right now, but possibly a regression creeped into KDE's code too. Will try to test later (if I can get access to a SUSE-Linux box later tonight).