#722 Gutenprint 5.3.3 compatibility issues with MacOS 10.14

[Robert Krawitz]

Various critical problems have been reported with the above combination:

1) Word crashes on trying to display the print dialog.
2) Only Printer Features are visible; other options are not.

Workaround is to continue to use 5.2.15 until this is resolved.

[mbroughtn]

The work around right now is to use a simplified PPD. That works. There is still a lot of testing to be done to find the ultimate cause of crashes. I am attaching a crash report from the Mac text editor BBEdit that is fully 64 bit macos native. It is similar in function to nedit on steroids. Applications will crash even before it gets to CUPS. There is no entry in CUPS error-log when ther applicaiton crashes. From my very limited knowledge, this might make sense and the crash report has a lot of entries for HIT -- human interface toolbox.

The one thing I found as I was searching for a cause is the ther Epson Stylus Photo 1410 uses the model 82 driver. The other printers that use this driver are Epson Artisan 1430, Epson Stylus Photo 1400, Epson Stylus Photo 1410, Epson PM G4500. This may or may not be relavent, but it is a small number of printers to test. I may also explain why there haven't been a lot of problems reported.

Matt

[Steve Letter]

You’re always such a huge help. I can’t dig into this for a few more days.

Steve Letter
Sent from my Commodore PET

On Oct 18, 2019, at 1:30 PM, mbroughtn mbroughtn@users.sourceforge.net wrote:


The work around right now is to use a simplified PPD. That works. There is still a lot of testing to be done to find the ultimate cause of crashes. I am attaching a crash report from the Mac text editor BBEdit that is fully 64 bit macos native. It is similar in function to nedit on steroids. Applications will crash even before it gets to CUPS. There is no entry in CUPS error-log when ther applicaiton crashes. From my very limited knowledge, this might make sense and the crash report has a lot of entries for HIT -- human interface toolbox.

The one thing I found as I was searching for a cause is the ther Epson Stylus Photo 1410 uses the model 82 driver. The other printers that use this driver are Epson Artisan 1430, Epson Stylus Photo 1400, Epson Stylus Photo 1410, Epson PM G4500. This may or may not be relavent, but it is a small number of printers to test. I may also explain why there haven't been a lot of problems reported.

Matt

Attachments:

BBEdit_2019-10-18-092821_Borodin.crash (81.5 kB; application/octet-stream)
[bugs:#722] Gutenprint 5.3.3 compatibility issues with MacOS 10.14

Status: open
Group: 5.3-open
Created: Mon Oct 14, 2019 02:12 AM UTC by Robert Krawitz
Last Updated: Mon Oct 14, 2019 02:14 AM UTC
Owner: Steve Letter

Various critical problems have been reported with the above combination:

1) Word crashes on trying to display the print dialog.
2) Only Printer Features are visible; other options are not.

Workaround is to continue to use 5.2.15 until this is resolved.

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[Robert Krawitz]

The full-featured 5.3 PPD files have CustomStpCDOuterDiameter (and inner diameter, and X and Y adjustments) that neither the simplified nor the full featured 5.2 PPD files have (all three do have custom page sizes). That's about the only shared difference I can find on quick inspection. I wonder if that's the problem.

[Steve Letter]

That sounds easy to check.

Steve Letter
Sent from my Commodore PET

On Oct 18, 2019, at 2:29 PM, Robert Krawitz rlk@users.sourceforge.net wrote:


The full-featured 5.3 PPD files have CustomStpCDOuterDiameter (and inner diameter, and X and Y adjustments) that neither the simplified nor the full featured 5.2 PPD files have (all three do have custom page sizes). That's about the only shared difference I can find on quick inspection. I wonder if that's the problem.

[bugs:#722] Gutenprint 5.3.3 compatibility issues with MacOS 10.14

Status: open
Group: 5.3-open
Created: Mon Oct 14, 2019 02:12 AM UTC by Robert Krawitz
Last Updated: Fri Oct 18, 2019 05:30 PM UTC
Owner: Steve Letter

Various critical problems have been reported with the above combination:

1) Word crashes on trying to display the print dialog.
2) Only Printer Features are visible; other options are not.

Workaround is to continue to use 5.2.15 until this is resolved.

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[mbroughtn]

The full-featured 5.3 PPD files have CustomStpCDOuterDiameter (and inner diameter, and X and Y adjustments) that neither the simplified nor the full featured 5.2 PPD files have (all three do have custom page sizes). That's about the only shared difference I can find on quick inspection. I wonder if that's the problem.

That would definitely seem to be the case. I modified the 5.2.15 PPD for the Stylus Photo 1410 so that it would run on 5.3.3. All the problems were solved. All the prnter features were available in the print window and there were no application crashes.

One side issue that I noticed is that Gutenprint 5.3.3 will not install on macos 10.6.8. I have no way to test anything between macos 10.68 and macos 10.14.x. That is making things get more complicated as we declare the last version of Gutenprint that can be run on a particular version of macos. It also should be noted on the Mac OS X webpage. I'm not sure if this requires or otherewise indicates a change in the ./configure parameters. Right now the following is used:
--with-archflags='-mmacosx-version-min=10.6 -Os -arch x86_64 -D_PPD_DEPRECATED=""'

Matt