On Nov 5, 2014, at 18:54 , Stephan Wiesand wrote:

> On Nov 5, 2014, at 18:24 , Pat Riehecky wrote:
> 
>> On 11/05/2014 01:54 AM, Götz Waschk wrote:
>>> Dear SL devs,
>>> 
>>> with the latest gtk2 update to SL 6.5, printing PDF files from evince to
>>> cups has stopped working. This seems to be related to changes in gtk2's
>>> libprintbackend-cups.so. It now seems to send PDF instead of Postscript
>>> data to the cups server.
>>> 
>>> Regards, Götz Waschk
>> 
>> That is curious....
>> 
>> The gtk2 rpm was built against the latest cups security errata so it shouldn't be an incompatibility between those...
>> 
>> Does the problem persist on SL 6.6?
> 
> It does, so it's not a hidden dependency. Note it doesn't affect all PDFs, but we found more than one which no longer prints. Reverting just the shared lib to the previous build is an ugly hack but seems to save us for now. I could provide a file demonstrating the issue, but not publicly.
> 
> 	Stephan


NB Our printing expert suspects the actual problem is the old pdftops on our SL6 cups server. If it's indeed a local problem, sorry for the noise.

	Stephan

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