Bug#211421: New Debian test pages for gnome-cups-manager

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 10:07 +0100, Daniel James wrote:
> Sure, please try these new versions on your printer. They test fine on 
> my Epson Stylus Photo R200. The source package remains exactly the same, 
> you can use this to make any modified test page you want (if you have 
> Scribus installed).

Thank you, they seem to work fine on my printer too. I have added these
to the package in the pkg-gnome svn repository. 

I'm not sure how the copyright is best handled. Maybe you can add the
GPL stanza as a comment in the beginning of the files?

> Please note that although these files are Postscript not EPS, I have 
> renamed them with the .eps extension so they will work as drop-in 
> replacements. Otherwise you will have to change the source code of 
> gnome-cups-manager to call .ps files. Without either of these changes, 
> gnome-cups-manger will just error when you ask for a test page to be 
> printed.

This is similar to how Ubuntu handled this. A cleaner solution will have
to wait for upstream to fix this.

> The old versions were made EPS because that's what the original Ximian 
> tool had, and I was trying not break compatibility. The EPS versions 
> still worked in 64 Studio last time I tried them; maybe we ship some 
> library that isn't in a default Etch desktop install.

I'm guessing this is because of a change in CUPS, see
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2175

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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