Hi Till, You made my day! I can print .pdf files from the command line both using lp and lpr. It was too simple for me to figure it out on my own :-(
I managed to capture some output of kghostview (which does not work, as described earlier) by running it from the command line (I only copied the output starting with kprint:) kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0xbfffec14, number of objects = 1 kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x81f50f4, number of objects = 2 kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x81e4440, number of objects = 3 kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x81e4478, number of objects = 4 kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x820437c, number of objects = 5 kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x820b848, number of objects = 6 kdeprint: Checking for update possible kdeprint: Starting async connect kdeprint: Connection success, trying to send a request... kdeprint: kdeprint: unregistering 0x81f50f4, number of objects = 5 kdeprint: kdeprint: unregistering 0x820b848, number of objects = 4 kdeprint: kdeprint: unregistering 0x820437c, number of objects = 3 kdeprint: ******************** kdeprint: PrintoutMode = High kdeprint: _kde-filters = kdeprint: copies = 1 kdeprint: kde-collate = Collate kdeprint: kde-copies = 1 kdeprint: kde-current = 1 kdeprint: kde-currentpage = 1 kdeprint: kde-isspecial = 0 kdeprint: kde-maxpage = 38 kdeprint: kde-minpage = 1 kdeprint: kde-orientation = Portrait kdeprint: kde-outputtofile = 0 kdeprint: kde-pageorder = Forward kdeprint: kde-pageset = 0 kdeprint: kde-pagesize = 0 kdeprint: kde-preview = 0 kdeprint: kde-printcommand = kdeprint: kde-range = kdeprint: kde-special-command = kdeprint: number-up = 2 kdeprint: orientation-requested = 3 kdeprint: kdeprint: status message: Sending print data to printer: HP_parallel kdeprint: kdeprint: print command: cupsdoprint -P 'HP_parallel' -J '' -H 'localhost:631' -U 'john' -o ' PrintoutMode=High copies=1 number-up=2 orientation-requested=3' '/tmp/kde-john/kghostviewM9PkTb.ps' kdeprint: kdeprint: status message: kdeprint: kdeprint: unregistering 0xbfffec14, number of objects = 2 Hope this is of some use... As to your questions: Using the print function of kpdf does not work (As described earlier) Using the print function of gs (print command: lpr) also does not work. I did not try to install acrobat reader under wine so I cannot comment on that. Thx a bundle, because now my wife can keep using Linux instead of XP :-) But can you shed any light on what is going on? If necessary I will start bugging the kde developers! Thx John On Thursday 26 June 2003 17:52, Till Kamppeter wrote: > John van Spaandonk wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It's been months since I've been able to print pfd files > > from xpdf, kghostview or ghostview using cooker. > > I seem to remember that it worked in 9.1. > > > > Print job just disappears after a while, after job state > > in kjobviewer went to processing. > > I cannot see anything relevant in cups log. > > Switching to lpr/lpd does not help. > > > > It is possible to print to file, and this produces a > > ps file that I can view with the mentioned programs. > > Printing this file with lp however does not work. > > > > Before I file a bug report, does anybody else have this > > problem? There are no relevant cooker bug reports but > > you never know... > > > > Is this Mandrake related? > > Or kde-related? (I do not have gnome installed atm) > > Can you print PDFs directly on the command line: > > lpr file.pdf > > or with the printing functions of "gv", "xpdf", or "acroread"? > > Till
