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On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 04:11:46PM -0400, james wrote: |
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> Pdfs are becoming a challenge to print. I'm sure I'll be printing pdf files |
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> for decades to come. |
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> So what application/strategy gets me past errors like this: |
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> "Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (version 0x50e01) with this library |
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> (version 0x50e02)" |
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How is your printer connected ? If it's using The Common Unix Print System |
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(C.U.P.S.) as many do, try the lpr command (from `net-print/cups`). The server |
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on which C.U.P.S.\ is running is specified with the `-H <address>` argument, and |
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various options can be specified with `-o <key=value>`. |
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To take the example from the man page of lpr: |
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Print a double-sided legal document to a printer called "foo": |
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$ lpr -P foo -o media=legal -o sides=two-sided-long-edge filename |
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If your printer is remote, as mine is (on a server called `genserv`), you can do |
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the following: |
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$ lpr -H genserv -o sides=two-sided-long-edge paper.pdf |
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This is not a suggestion that you abandon the issue of mismatched Qt library |
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versions, but rather a simple workaround to use while the various Qt programs |
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get up-to-date with the latest versions of the libraries. Providing C.U.P.S.\ is |
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configured correctly with all the appropriate `ppd` files for your particular |
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printer model, lpr should work out-of-the-box. |
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