[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 18:46 -------
Hah!, I was now able to test it as well.

However, on the SUSE-10.0 system I have access to, kprinter currently is b0rken (again) -- with the symptoms described here: http://lists.kde.org/?t=116975522400003&r=1&w=2

Hence, I booted a Sidux Live CD (http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=sidux). But, alas!, they (and it seems all of $debian) still ship a 1999 version of the "poster" utility. So I copied SUSE-10.0 version of the poster binary to the Sidux system ("scp kurt some-remote-suse-10-box:/usr/bin/poster /usr/local/bin/poster") and it immediately worked (who would have thought that copying a random binary from SUSE to Debian would let it work?!?)!

Indeed, only when bolting the "Multipage" filter into the chain before the "Poster" one your example file worked. I ran another test with a KWord file, and that worked directly.

One last question, Tristan (I'm just curious): did you notice that KDE's print dialog (including the Poster tab) includes quite some "WhatsThis" help blurbs? I'm just interested to hear feedback from users, if they do at all notice that support given to them, or if these WhatsThis thingies are more or less useless, because nobody does notice they are there...


Thanks to your bug report; this may now lead to a fix for the base "poster" printing problem on Debian as well (they can't have had any working KDEPrint/poster feature *ever* with that old, unpatched poster package they ship).

I'll close this report now (and may write a different one in the next few weeks asking for someone to implement a more robust poster printing feature into KDE4 (which should automatically and silently convert the input to EPS before it goes to poster).