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On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 11:10:04PM -0400, Michael George wrote: |
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> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 08:47:49AM -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> > Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> > > On 29 Apr, Stroller wrote: |
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> > > |
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> > >> On 28 Apr 2010, at 15:27, Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> > >> |
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> > >>>> ... |
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> > >>>> Why do you need to bypass CUPS? |
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> > >>>> |
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> > >>> Thanks, it's just for debugging. |
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> > >>> |
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> > >>> Printing some pdf files with acroread makes some printers |
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> > >>> hang here. |
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> > >>> To locate the problem source, I'd like to check if the printer |
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> > >>> works if it gets the postscript or pdf-file (there printer is assumed |
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> > >>> to accept postscript level 3). |
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> > >>> |
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> > >> Have you tried using `lpr` at the command line? |
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> > >> |
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> > >> I *believe* something like `lpr /path/to/file.pdf` should work. |
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> > >> |
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> > >> |
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> > > Thanks, but lpr is just a front-end for cups. |
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> > > |
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> > > |
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> > |
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> > I tried that here and got a error. It may be a bad setting on my end |
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> > but it didn't like the idea. |
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> > |
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> > root@smoker ~ # lpr /data/pdf/LivingWill.pdf |
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> > lpr: Unsupported format 'application/pdf'! |
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> > root@smoker ~ # |
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> |
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> I started noticing this today too. My Macs aren't able to successfully |
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> print, I just get an error in the error log about application/pdf being |
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> an unsupported format. |
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> |
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> If I take a PDF generated on the Mac and move it to my Linux system and |
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> run "lpr <filename>.pdf" I get: |
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> lpr: Unsupported format 'application/pdf'! |
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> |
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> If I use "pdftops" to generate a PS file, "lpr <filename>.ps" works |
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> fine. If I open the PDF in xpdf and print, telling it to use the |
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> command "lpr," that also works fine. |
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> |
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> I upgraded from cups 1.3.10 to 1.3.11 today (cannot go back). I've |
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> rebuilt all the foomatic packages I had installed, gutenprint, cups-pdf, |
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> ghostscript-gpl, but still it doesn't work... |
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I'm not sure that you are having the same problem I am, but I found the |
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solution here to work for me: |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=309901 |
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-M |
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There are 10 kinds of people in this world: |
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Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. |
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