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Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 06 October 2004 11:44, Gábor Farkas wrote: |
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>>well...foomatic (at least for me) usually has the printer driver i need |
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>>(it works with kcontrol). |
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>>i just don't know how to add a cups printer in gnome ;) |
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> Well, kcontrol knows about foomatic, but cups itself certainly doesn't. An |
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> easy way to control cups is through the web interface. For that to work |
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> the printer needs to be known to cups (by installing in that location). |
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> Paul |
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I really recommend the setting the "ppds" USE flag. When installing |
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foomatic-db, hpijs, gimp-print, etc, this flag causes a large database |
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of ppd files to be generated so that the print drivers can be seen in |
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the CUPS web interface and higher level printer setup utilities. |
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Otherwise, you are left to generate ppd files by cups command line |
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tools, which is not a trivial process. The only down side is an extra |
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5-10MB in /usr/share/ppd, which is not very much at all. |
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I propose that this USE flag be set in make.defaults. |
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Jonathan |
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