xfig prints empty pages

Magnus Warker · External Since: May 15, 2007 Posts: 10

Hi,

when I print with xfig on my Debian Etch, I just get empty pages.

When I export the figure to pdf, it prints fine with kpdf.
Other apps can print, too.

During printing, the following message is written to the shell:
"request id is Printmaster-88 (1 file(s))"
("Printmaster" is the name of my printer.)

I am using CUPS.

What can I do?

Thanks
Magnus

WGz · Joined: Aug 20, 2008 Posts: 1

Hi,

here is the patch.cups

Quote:

*** fig2dev/dev/genps.c.orig Tue Sep 20 08:09:25 2005
--- fig2dev/dev/genps.c Tue Feb 27 13:49:44 2007
***************
*** 684,689 ****
--- 684,691 ----
height = userury-userlly+1;
}

+ /* put in the magnification for information purposes */
+ fprintf(tfp, "%%Magnification: %.4f\n",metric? mag*76.2/80.0 : mag);
/* only include a pagesize command if PS */
if (!epsflag && !pdfflag) {
/* add comment for ghostview to recognize the page size */
***************
*** 692,697 ****
--- 694,702 ----
for (i=strlen(psize)-1; i>=0; i--)
psize[i] = tolower(psize[i]);
fprintf(tfp, "%%%%DocumentPaperSizes: %s\n",psize);
+ }
+ fprintf(tfp, "%%%%EndComments\n");
+ if (!epsflag && !pdfflag) {
fprintf(tfp, "%%%%BeginSetup\n");
fprintf(tfp, "[{\n");
fprintf(tfp, "%%%%BeginFeature: *PageRegion %s\n", papersize);
***************
*** 709,717 ****
}

- /* put in the magnification for information purposes */
- fprintf(tfp, "%%Magnification: %.4f\n",metric? mag*76.2/80.0 : mag);
- fprintf(tfp, "%%%%EndComments\n");

/* if the user wants an ASCII preview, route the rest of the eps to a temp file */
if (asciipreview) {
--- 714,719 ----
***************
*** 751,756 ****
--- 753,759 ----

if (pats_used)
fprintf(tfp,"/MyAppDict 100 dict dup begin def\n");
+ fprintf(tfp, "%%%%BeginProlog\n");
fprintf(tfp, "%s", BEGIN_PROLOG1);
/* define the standard colors */
genps_std_colors();
***************
*** 843,854 ****

fprintf(tfp, "10 setmiterlimit\n"); /* make like X server (11 degrees) */
fprintf(tfp, "0 slj 0 slc\n"); /* set initial join style to miter and cap to butt */
-
if (multi_page) {
/* reset the matrix for multipage mode */
fprintf(tfp, "initmatrix\n");
} else {
fprintf(tfp, " %.5f %.5f sc\n", scalex, scaley );
if (!epsflag) {
fprintf(tfp,"%%%%Page: 1 1\n");
fprintf(tfp, "%%%%BeginPageSetup\n");
--- 846,858 ----

fprintf(tfp, "10 setmiterlimit\n"); /* make like X server (11 degrees) */
fprintf(tfp, "0 slj 0 slc\n"); /* set initial join style to miter and cap to butt */
if (multi_page) {
/* reset the matrix for multipage mode */
fprintf(tfp, "initmatrix\n");
+ fprintf(tfp, "%%%%EndProlog\n");
} else {
fprintf(tfp, " %.5f %.5f sc\n", scalex, scaley );
+ fprintf(tfp, "%%%%EndProlog\n");
if (!epsflag) {
fprintf(tfp,"%%%%Page: 1 1\n");
fprintf(tfp, "%%%%BeginPageSetup\n");

Brian Smith wrote:

"CUPS has a problem with certain formatting of PostScript files so it fails to print
anything in those cases.
There is a fix for fig2dev release 3.2.5a, but I haven't distributed that yet.
However, I have attached a patch file which should fix the problem.
Save the attached patch file in the toplevel transfig directory and do:

patch -p0 -i patch.cups

Then do make and make install."

Werner.

See: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=419432