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This bug was fixed in the package cups-filters - 1.21.3-1ubuntu0.1

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cups-filters (1.21.3-1ubuntu0.1) cosmic-security; urgency=medium

  * Fix PDF printing regression caused by latest Ghostscript security
    updates (LP: #1828401)
    - debian/patches/lp1828401.patch: don't use undocumented Ghostscript
      function in filter/foomatic-rip/pdf.c.

 -- Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxx>  Thu, 09 May 2019
10:45:25 -0400

** Changed in: cups-filters (Ubuntu Cosmic)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Released

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Title:
  9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.9 breaks cups printing of pdf

Status in cups-filters package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in cups-filters source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released
Status in cups-filters source package in Bionic:
  Fix Released
Status in cups-filters source package in Cosmic:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
  Description:	Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
  Release:	18.04
  Codename:	bionic

  
  PROBLEM:
  9.26~dfsg+0-0ubuntu0.18.04.9 breaks printing pdf on cups

  error in cups logs:

  ...
  D [09/May/2019:13:44:33 +0200] [Job 68] GPL Ghostscript 9.26: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
  D [09/May/2019:13:44:33 +0200] [Job 68] Process is dying with \"Unable to determine number of pages, page count: -1
  D [09/May/2019:13:44:33 +0200] [Job 68] \", exit stat 3
  ...

  details of this bug here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/62251

  POSSIBLE SOLUTION:
  release an update of cups-filters to 1.22.5

  WORKAROUND: 
  downgrade ghostscript to 9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1

  sudo apt install ghostscript=9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1
  libgs9=9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1 libgs9-common=9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1
  ghostscript-x=9.22~dfsg+1-0ubuntu1

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