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Re: basics of CUPS troubleshooting

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On Mon 11 Jun 2018 at 18:40:49 -0500, Mark Copper wrote:

> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 2:29 PM, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon 28 May 2018 at 18:20:13 -0500, Mark Copper wrote:
> >
> > > Having upgraded to Stretch, a file that I need to print no longer prints
> > > properly. (It did before.)
> > >
> > > I am sure the difficulty is so idiosyncratic no one here will have
> > > experienced it. So I'm not asking how to fix it specifically.  Rather I'm
> > > looking for advice how to isolate the difficulty, generally speaking.
> >
> > What is offered in the printing section of the wiki could help.
> >
> 
> Thanks for this. I was unaware.
> 
> The problem I'm seeing seems to be in the CUPS filter gstoraster. That is,
> all is well at the preceding step:
> 
> # /usr/sbin/cupsfilter -p /etc/cups/ppd/Zebra.ppd -m
> application/vnd.cups-pdf -o orientation-requested=3 tag_generator.pdf >
> out.pdf

The output of pdfinfo for tag_generator.pdf would be useful.
 
> Well, almost. It was necessary to include the "orientation-requested=3"
> option to keep the document from rotating.

That directive produces a rotation of 0 degrees. It is difficult to see
how it promotes or stops rotation.

> But at the next step, the document is laid on its side no matter the
> orientation requested:

"laid on its side" means?

-- 
Brian.

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basics of CUPS troubleshooting Mark Copper <mlcopper@gmail.com> - 2018-05-29 01:30 +0200
  Re: basics of CUPS troubleshooting Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-05-29 21:30 +0200
    Re: basics of CUPS troubleshooting Mark Copper <mcopper@straitcity.com> - 2018-06-12 01:50 +0200
      Re: basics of CUPS troubleshooting Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-06-15 22:40 +0200
        Re: basics of CUPS troubleshooting Mark Copper <mcopper@straitcity.com> - 2018-06-16 00:30 +0200

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