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Hi, Gentoo. |
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My printer used to work. According to CUPS, its last succesful print |
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was in February. (Incidentally, I used to have an up-to-date system, but |
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that went when I screwed it up after Gentoo made Gnome-3 stable and I |
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tried to switch out of Gnome. My last emerge --sync was around the same |
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time.) |
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When I tried to print a *.pdf from evince, I got an error message saying |
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/path/to/foomatic-rip didn't exist. (Sorry, I can't reproduce the exact |
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error message any more). It would seem there has been a change from |
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foomatic filters to cups-filters (which I have installed) at some stage. |
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But I don't recall this change, and I can't find any docs about how to |
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configure printing to use cups-filters. When I go through the "Modify |
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printer" sequence in http://localhost:631, and try to change the filter, |
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I just get presented with a long list of foomatic filters. |
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I've been at this stage for some while now, dreading the impending hours |
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and hours of web searching. Any tips people can give me to cut this |
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miserable process short will be most warmly received. |
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By the way, what has happened to the helpful documentation which used to |
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be at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en? Most of it seems to have |
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disappeared. There used to be a helpful doc on setting up a printer, |
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but that has gone. (I'm lucky enough to be able to read the German |
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translations, which (largely, at least) still exist, but they're |
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somewhat out of date). |
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-- |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |