Re: [gentoo-user] cups and ghostprint ESP

[Manuel A. McLure]

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 05:45 pm, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Having trouble getting cups to work with a smb installed printer.
>
> It connects ok apparently but has trouble finding ghostscrip ESP.
>
> Googling this group on `cups ESP'  I find a few mentions but mostly
> about needing to install it.
>
> I have it installed as indicated by esearch:
> *  app-text/ghostscript-esp
>       Latest version available: 7.07.1-r10
>       Latest version installed: 7.07.1-r10
> [...]
>
> The error output with cups set to log debug indicates it cannot
> find the ESP ghostscript files:
>
> [...]
> I [21/Feb/2006:17:45:52 -0600] Full reload complete.
> I [21/Feb/2006:17:46:11 -0600] Adding start banner page "none" to job 22.
> I [21/Feb/2006:17:46:11 -0600] Adding end banner page "none" to job 22.
> I [21/Feb/2006:17:46:11 -0600] Job 22 queued on 'harvey-hp7130-usb' by
> 'root'. E [21/Feb/2006:17:46:11 -0600] Unable to convert file 0 to
> printable format for job 22! I [21/Feb/2006:17:46:11 -0600] Hint: Do you
> have ESP Ghostscript installed? I [21/Feb/2006:17:46:11 -0600] Hint: Try
> setting the LogLevel to "debug". [...]

Do you have foomatic-filters installed? It includes wrapper scripts around 
ghostscript that do the work.

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