diff --git a/package/praenti/cups/cups.conf b/package/praenti/cups/cups.conf
index 10a1c3462..212be323d 100644
--- a/package/praenti/cups/cups.conf
+++ b/package/praenti/cups/cups.conf
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ cups_pm(){
 	chown daemon:daemon $root/var/spool/cups/tmp
 }
 
+if [ "${ROCKCFG_X86_BITS}" = "64" ] ; then
+	var_append patchfiles ' ' "$base/package/praenti/cups/hotfix.diff_x86_64"
+fi
 var_append copfopt "--with-logdir=/var/cups/log
                     --with-cups-user=daemon --with-cups-group=daemon"
 
diff --git a/package/praenti/cups/hotfix.diff_x86_64 b/package/praenti/cups/hotfix.diff_x86_64
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..657fc6c80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/praenti/cups/hotfix.diff_x86_64
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -pruN -x CVS cups-1.1.23/pdftops/GfxFont.cxx build/64-TRUNK-x86-crystal/ROCK/src.cups.1152101103.27092.2813494945/cups-1.1.23/pdftops/GfxFont.cxx
+--- cups-1.1.23/pdftops/GfxFont.cxx	2004-02-02 22:41:09.000000000 +0000
++++ build/64-TRUNK-x86-crystal/ROCK/src.cups.1152101103.27092.2813494945/cups-1.1.23/pdftops/GfxFont.cxx	2006-07-05 12:26:58.000000000 +0000
+@@ -969,7 +969,7 @@ Gushort *Gfx8BitFont::getCodeToGIDMap(Tr
+   if ((nameToGID = ff->getNameToGID())) {
+     for (i = 0; i < 256; ++i) {
+       if (!map[i] && (charName = enc[i])) {
+-	map[i] = (Gushort)(int)nameToGID->lookup(charName);
++	map[i] = (Gushort)(long)nameToGID->lookup(charName);
+       }
+     }
+     delete nameToGID;