How can I suppress a FormFeed at the end of print jobs?

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Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Issue

Documents containing a FormFeed at the end print an extra page.  This happens when moving documents from RHEL4 to RHEL5.

Resolution

  1. Change the following line in /etc/cups/mime.convs:

    text/plain             application/postscript  33      texttopaps

    to

    text/plain             application/postscript  33      texttops
  • Restart CUPS.

Root Cause

  • One of the major differences coming from RHEL4 to RHEL5 is that the default text/plain mime option in CUPS is now using texttopaps filter.
  • This can cause formatting issues and legacy documents to print differently.

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