When printing text with lp command, the lines aren't wrapped properly in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4

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Issue

  • Reports that have 132 columns when printed with lpotions of cpi greater than 16 are not printed properly.
  • Printers print 80 char wide instead of 132 char wide.
  • After updating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, when printing with lp command, the text output looks bolder and text wrapping doesn't work properly causing the output to look dirty
  • When using texttopaps filter to print text files using lp command, the font looks bolder and cpi and lpi values in lpoptions are not honoured properly

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
  • cups-1.3.7-11.el5_4.4-i386
  • paps-0.6.6-19.el5.i386

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