On Tuesday 24 February 2015 04:47:14 Curt wrote: > On 2015-02-24, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > >> Why not print a page range? > > I fail to understand why you don't print a test page from the CUPS > interface, after having selected duplex printing as a default printing > option. I don't know what this would tell us if it did (or didn't) work, > but less trees might suffer in the interim. Perhaps duplex printing as a > default option in the CUPS web interface is unavailable.
Apparently that only works using the brother drivers. I can run it in postscript mode too, but in that mode the cups test page crashes it, and it crashes at the end of any print job sent to it, in all cases needing a power cycle to restore it for the next job. The brother drivers have all the duplex operations visible in the localhost:631 access, but there is absolutely no facility in wheezy that can use it, those options are in the printer dialogs presented by any other program from geany thru evince and okular, all show the duplex operations ghosted out and unavailable. The point being that all of this worked flawlessly for ubuntu-10.04.4 LTS. Someone said that libpoppler can't do duplex, but wheezy is supposed to be newer. I have the old drive mounted, so I'll just go check libpoppler versions. Here is what I can find: root@coyote:/etc/default# ls -l `locate poppler|grep '/opt' -` -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2127836 Jun 11 2012 /mnt/ltsslash/opt/calibre/lib/libpoppler.so.25 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2127836 Jun 11 2012 /opt/calibre/lib/libpoppler.so.25 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49076 Nov 25 10:23 /opt/trinity/lib/libpoppler-tqt.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Nov 25 10:22 /opt/trinity/lib/libpoppler-tqt.so.0 -> libpoppler-tqt.so.0.0.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49080 Nov 25 10:23 /opt/trinity/lib/libpoppler-tqt.so.0.0.0 root@coyote:/etc/default# ls -l `locate poppler|grep '/usr/lib' -` -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167400 Nov 8 2011 /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/kde4/okularGenerator_poppler.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Apr 4 2013 /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/libpoppler-glib.so.4 -> libpoppler-glib.so.4.0.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191248 Mar 28 2013 /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/libpoppler-glib.so.4.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Aug 15 2014 /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/libpoppler-qt4.so.3 -> libpoppler-qt4.so.3.2.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 453476 Mar 28 2013 /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/libpoppler-qt4.so.3.2.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Apr 4 2013 /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/libpoppler.so.5 -> libpoppler.so.5.0.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1853748 Mar 28 2013 /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/libpoppler.so.5.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Sep 4 08:20 /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/poppler.so -> /usr/lib/pyshared/python2.6/poppler.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66896 Jan 25 2010 /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/pyshared/python2.6/poppler.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Feb 3 22:15 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpoppler-glib.so.8 -> libpoppler-glib.so.8.2.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 238940 Mar 25 2013 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpoppler-glib.so.8.2.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Mar 25 2013 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpoppler-qt4.so.3 -> libpoppler-qt4.so.3.7.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 345440 Mar 25 2013 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpoppler-qt4.so.3.7.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Feb 3 22:15 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpoppler.so.19 -> libpoppler.so.19.0.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1922928 Mar 25 2013 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpoppler.so.19.0.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17768 Jun 3 2012 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/tumbler-1/plugins/tumbler-poppler-thumbnailer.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184568 Nov 28 2012 /usr/lib/kde4/okularGenerator_poppler.so This obviously shows the version trinity installed, which I did yesterday because wheezy's kmail version 1.13.7 has broken font rendering in the message window as described in about 15 posts to the list with no solution that worked offered. I'd file a bug but my wall is so full of scribbled passwds that I cannot find the one I want the next time I need it now. kmail 1.9.5, except for a lack of a dbus port, just works. The above list is a bit confusing but if I can get that so.25 version linked correctly, it would be my next attempt to solve this problem. Someone said that it was the wheezy version of it that cannot do duplex. It works, with the above gotcha's if I use a postscript level 1 driver in cups. Does anyone have a clue how old level 1 is? Several decades. We already had level 2 support in ghostscript when I built it at version 5.02 on an amiga in the middle 90's. I have a copy of the postscript level 3 specification on the shelf above me thats at least 15 years old, printed from that same amiga. I see by the above list that kde has its own, less than 10% of the size of the so.25 that calibre uses. If indeed its libpopplers problem, how about getting everybody on the same page, using just one version that works? This install has 7 versions! Can we please introduce the left hand to the right hand here? I will install calibre here, and see if it is so crippled. Stay tuned. > -- > > "The world is full of shipping clerks who have read the Harvard Classics." > > — Charles Bukowski Thanks Charles. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201502241016.24193.ghesk...@wdtv.com
