Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince

2014-03-16 Thread Mark Copper
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Mark Copper mlcop...@gmail.com wrote: Dear List, What might explain this behavior? A Zebra label printer (GX430t) is configured through CUPS and it is desired to print a PDF file on it. The PDF file was created with the Perl module PDF::API2. The file

Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince

2014-03-16 Thread Brian
On Sun 16 Mar 2014 at 10:36:26 -0500, Mark Copper wrote: Before I let this go, let me add some data and a word of explanation why I posted here. Presumably you wanted help. However, you have not provided information requested in response to your initial post. Printing file.pdf from the

Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince

2014-03-16 Thread Curt
On 2014-03-16, Mark Copper mlcop...@gmail.com wrote: So I have 2 different ways to go at present: from Iceweasel, download to gv and print from there and from Chrome viewer printing with system print. Some have been successful in using the Chrome pdf plugin (libpdf.so) in Chromium. Too bad

Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince

2014-03-16 Thread Mark Copper
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2014-03-16, Mark Copper mlcop...@gmail.com wrote: So I have 2 different ways to go at present: from Iceweasel, download to gv and print from there and from Chrome viewer printing with system print. Some have been successful in

Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince

2014-03-16 Thread Brian
On Sun 16 Mar 2014 at 12:35:32 -0500, Mark Copper wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: Some have been successful in using the Chrome pdf plugin (libpdf.so) in Chromium. Too bad you didn't let Brian help you troubleshoot the problem. Did you say that

Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince

2014-03-16 Thread Mark Copper
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sun 16 Mar 2014 at 12:35:32 -0500, Mark Copper wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: Some have been successful in using the Chrome pdf plugin (libpdf.so) in Chromium. Too bad you didn't

Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince

2014-03-16 Thread Brian
On Sun 16 Mar 2014 at 13:28:32 -0500, Mark Copper wrote: Please see here for the zip file: straitcity.com/cups_debug_log.zip wget http://straitcity.com/cups_debug_log.zip It's only 9k in size! We've had off-topic threads larger than that. :) The job 8841 succeeded and was generated

Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince

2014-03-16 Thread Mark Copper
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sun 16 Mar 2014 at 13:28:32 -0500, Mark Copper wrote: Please see here for the zip file: straitcity.com/cups_debug_log.zip wget http://straitcity.com/cups_debug_log.zip It's only 9k in size! We've had off-topic

CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince

2014-03-14 Thread Mark Copper
Dear List, What might explain this behavior? A Zebra label printer (GX430t) is configured through CUPS and it is desired to print a PDF file on it. The PDF file was created with the Perl module PDF::API2. The file prints fine from the command line: $lpr -P Zebra_Technologies_ZTC_GX430t

Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince

2014-03-14 Thread Brian
On Fri 14 Mar 2014 at 10:53:13 -0500, Mark Copper wrote: It's probability 0 that someone else has had this exact problem. But I'm wondering if anyone might have some ideas on an approach. Maybe something can be changed in the PDF generation? Maybe something can be changed in the Iceweasel

Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince

2014-03-14 Thread Patrick Chkoreff
Brian wrote, On 03/14/2014 02:13 PM: I'm probably being a bit dense but what do you mean by 'embedded Iceweasel pdf viewer'? When you open a PDF in Iceweasel, either by clicking a link or opening a file, it renders the PDF right inside the browser instead of bringing it up in Document Viewer.

Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince

2014-03-14 Thread Brian
On Fri 14 Mar 2014 at 14:21:47 -0400, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: Brian wrote, On 03/14/2014 02:13 PM: I'm probably being a bit dense but what do you mean by 'embedded Iceweasel pdf viewer'? When you open a PDF in Iceweasel, either by clicking a link or opening a file, it renders the PDF

Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince

2014-03-14 Thread Curt
On 2014-03-14, Patrick Chkoreff patr...@rayservers.net wrote: When you open a PDF in Iceweasel, either by clicking a link or opening a file, it renders the PDF right inside the browser instead of bringing it up in Document Viewer. Google Chrome has a nice embedded pdf viewer that corresponds

Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince

2014-03-14 Thread Patrick Chkoreff
Brian wrote, On 03/14/2014 03:03 PM: On Fri 14 Mar 2014 at 14:21:47 -0400, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: Brian wrote, On 03/14/2014 02:13 PM: I'm probably being a bit dense but what do you mean by 'embedded Iceweasel pdf viewer'? When you open a PDF in Iceweasel, either by clicking a link or

Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince

2014-03-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:03:49 + Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: Hello Brian, either xpdf or mupdf in its own window. What program performs the rendering and display of PDFs with the embedded technique? Iceweasel. It's had its own viewer for quite some time. I don't recall which version

Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince

2014-03-14 Thread Patrick Chkoreff
Patrick Chkoreff wrote, On 03/14/2014 03:18 PM: Another weird thing I just noticed yesterday. Whenever I view PDFs, they appear to have little black rectangles scattered around, typically to the left of text blocks. It looks as if the PDF has been redacted -- but of course it's really just

Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince

2014-03-14 Thread Brian
On Fri 14 Mar 2014 at 19:12:46 +, Brad Rogers wrote: Iceweasel. It's had its own viewer for quite some time. I don't recall which version first included it, but it was probably around v16 or 17. Thank you (and Patrick and Curt). I think I understand now. As far as the OP's problem is