On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:05:59AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:50:58PM +1000, CaT wrote:
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:17:45AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
Could some of that problem be having aptitude treat recommends as
required?
Or something
On 06/15/07 08:05, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
[snip]
Doesn't include the ML-whatever OkiData driver for my IBM Personal
Computer Graphics Printer (the one pictured with the 'New' IBM PC in
history books).
Where do you keep getting ribbons for it?
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So, in other words, Debian sans CUPS isn't possible. You may
not have to actually run it, but you have to have it installed.
That's ridiculous. This is viral software.
True. Unfortunately this virus has already spread widely.. At
least 144 packages which do not really need cups (because
Jan Willem Stumpel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
So, in other words, Debian sans CUPS isn't possible. You may
not have to actually run it, but you have to have it installed.
That's ridiculous. This is viral software.
True. Unfortunately this virus has already spread widely.. At
least 144
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
s. keeling wrote:
(0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude -s install foomatic-gui
...
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
lprng
toncho/~ sudo apt-get -s install foomatic-gui
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree...
On 06/15/07 11:20, s. keeling wrote:
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
s. keeling wrote:
(0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude -s install foomatic-gui
...
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
lprng
toncho/~ sudo apt-get -s install foomatic-gui
Reading package lists... Done
s. keeling writes:
Well, I guess my system must be broken in some way, though I fail to
understand why it works so well if it's broken. At least apt-get doesn't
try to blow away lprng:
There is still something odd here. I don't have most of those packages
installed (I don't use a desktop
s. keeling writes:
There is no Gnome or KDE on this thing, yet xscreensaver works just as it
always has.
And why wouldn't it? It doesn't depend on any Gnome or KDE stuff.
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Ron Johnson writes:
foomatic-gui is a very high-level python GNOME app. You don't have any
GNOME libraries installed, so no wonder you've got to pulling in the
world.
It doesn't try to pull in all that stuff here.
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On 06/15/07 12:26, John Hasler wrote:
Ron Johnson writes:
foomatic-gui is a very high-level python GNOME app. You don't have any
GNOME libraries installed, so no wonder you've got to pulling in the
world.
It doesn't try to pull in all that stuff here.
Maybe apt hates Canadians.
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Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 06/15/07 11:20, s. keeling wrote:
Well, I guess my system must be broken in some way, though I fail to
understand why it works so well if it's broken. At least apt-get
foomatic-gui is a very high-level python GNOME app. You don't have
any GNOME
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
s. keeling writes:
Well, I guess my system must be broken in some way, though I fail to
understand why it works so well if it's broken. At least apt-get doesn't
try to blow away lprng:
There is still something odd here. I don't have most of those
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
s. keeling writes:
There is no Gnome or KDE on this thing, yet xscreensaver works just as it
always has.
And why wouldn't it? It doesn't depend on any Gnome or KDE stuff.
That's what I'm saying. It doesn't need them. I also see there's an
On 06/15/07 13:12, s. keeling wrote:
[snip]
He must be on the Communist Broadcorping Castration network. It and I
manage to avoid each other, mostly.
You can deny all you want, but I know that you watch it on your PVR.
How 'bout you? Cheering for
Paris
S. Keeling wrote:
Ugh. The list of stuff it wants to get rid of is just weird.
Audacity, Azureus, Bittornado-gui, Mplayer, Xcdroast,
Xscreensaver?!?
It is indeed incredible that some packages that do not even print
(you were wrong about audacity BTW, because it *can* print -- but
you could
s. keeling writes:
There is no Gnome or KDE on this thing, yet xscreensaver works just as it
always has.
I wrote:
And why wouldn't it? It doesn't depend on any Gnome or KDE stuff.
s. keeling writes:
That's what I'm saying. It doesn't need them. I also see there's an
xscreensaver-nognome
Jan Willem Stumpel writes:
I suspect some developers have been too generous in assigning
dependencies to some packages -- especially library packages.
It's upstream that decides to link to the libraries.
Anyway I think the dependencies ought to be looked at very critically,
and when possible
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 18:12:32 +, s. keeling wrote:
[...]
While we're at it, maybe we (well, I) need null-gnome, null-kde, ...
placeholder targets to fool them into thinking they're there when
they're not. If null-gnome is provided by fluxbox or xserver-xorg,
there'd be no need for a
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:26:07AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/15/07 08:05, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
[snip]
Doesn't include the ML-whatever OkiData driver for my IBM Personal
Computer Graphics Printer (the one pictured with the 'New' IBM PC in
history books).
Where do you keep
On 06/15/07 18:49, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
[snip]
I have a laser and an inkjet printer but my wife has chemical
sensitivities and it takes a page 2 weeks to off-gas enough for her to
be able to read them; the dot-matrix is fine.
99% of non-junk snail mail is laser printed/photocopied.
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:42:38PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/15/07 18:49, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
I have a laser and an inkjet printer but my wife has chemical
sensitivities and it takes a page 2 weeks to off-gas enough for her to
be able to read them; the dot-matrix is fine.
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:20:36PM +, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
s. keeling writes:
Well, I guess my system must be broken in some way, though I fail to
understand why it works so well if it's broken. At least apt-get doesn't
On 14 Jun 2007, CaT wrote:
[snip]
Then don't use it.
I gave up on CUPS a long time ago. I did have it working but the results
using plain lpr and magicfilter are better, at least for me, and a lot
easier to maintain, including remote printing.
Anthony
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S. Keeling wrote:
So, perhaps ca. two thousand, six hundred, and ninety five files
which have nothing to do with my printer? At least they're all
gzipped ...
Astonishing. I've never understood the reason for having CUPS at
all (being a happy lprng user) but I had no idea it was *this*
bad.
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:08:35PM +0200, JWS wrote:
S. Keeling wrote:
So, perhaps ca. two thousand, six hundred, and ninety five files
which have nothing to do with my printer? At least they're all
gzipped ...
Astonishing. I've never understood the reason for having CUPS at
all
CaT [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:29:49AM +, s. keeling wrote:
Good for you, I'm glad for you; and irrelevant. Yes, CUPS works.
What if you don't want to use CUPS? Have you not seen all the posts
Then don't use it.
Sigh. My point is, that's far easier said than
Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 14 Jun 2007, CaT wrote:
Then don't use it.
I gave up on CUPS a long time ago. I did have it working but the results
Previous to this non-DE install, I did a full Etch install just to see
what it was like. I had CUPS working. It printed one
JWS [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
S. Keeling wrote:
So, perhaps ca. two thousand, six hundred, and ninety five files
which have nothing to do with my printer? At least they're all
Astonishing. I've never understood the reason for having CUPS at
I've never liked it from the first time I saw it.
I've got about 300 servers out there using lprng.
My 1st run-in with cups gave me some surprises.
1) Removing cups generally removes X, desktop, etc...
2) lpstat no longer works (at least in the same manner, depending on the
flavor of Linux)...
3) Manual intervention into cups setup tends to get
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 17:21:50 +, s. keeling wrote:
[...]
Damned near
everything drags in CUPS. I already had lprng installed, and
foomatic-* wanted to remove it and install CUPS. Should I just
complain to linuxprinting.org that they're flat out lying when they
say I can use pretty
Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 17:21:50 +, s. keeling wrote:
Damned near
everything drags in CUPS. I already had lprng installed, and
foomatic-* wanted to remove it and install CUPS. Should I just
Is it really that bad as far as CUPS is concerned? I
Larry Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've got about 300 servers out there using lprng.
My 1st run-in with cups gave me some surprises.
1) Removing cups generally removes X, desktop, etc...
That's one of the best reasons I can think of for not installing it in
the first place.
So! If you want
On 06/14/07 16:19, s. keeling wrote:
Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 17:21:50 +, s. keeling wrote:
Damned near
everything drags in CUPS. I already had lprng installed, and
foomatic-* wanted to remove it and install CUPS. Should I just
Is it really that bad as
On 06/14/07 16:53, s. keeling wrote:
[snip]
So, in other words, Debian sans CUPS isn't possible. You may not have
to actually run it, but you have to have it installed. That's
ridiculous. This is viral software.
Start filing bugs against the deep-level dependers. apt-rdepends is
your
Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
OK, I see, libgtk2.0-0 might be difficult to avoid on a desktop system
and it depends on libcupsys2 in Lenny and Sid. However, the foomatic-*
packages do not seem to depend on any CUPS packages. foomatic-filters
and foomatic-filters-ppds both recommend
s. keeling writes:
So, in other words, Debian sans CUPS isn't possible. You may not have to
actually run it, but you have to have it installed.
I guess I'm not running Debian:
toncho/~ sudo apt-get -s remove cupsys-client
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package
s. keeling wrote:
(0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude -s install foomatic-gui
...
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
lprng
...
...
toncho/~ sudo apt-get -s install foomatic-gui
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:51:00PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
s. keeling wrote:
(0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude -s install foomatic-gui
...
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
lprng
...
...
toncho/~ sudo apt-get -s install foomatic-gui
Thank you. At least
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 06/14/07 16:19, s. keeling wrote:
[copious output snipped]
I rest my case.
User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian)
No wonder it wanted to pull in 145 packages: you're a text mode
octogenarian! You're probably also running NetBSD on a VAX 11/785.
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
s. keeling wrote:
(0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude -s install foomatic-gui
...
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
lprng
toncho/~ sudo apt-get -s install foomatic-gui
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree...
On 06/14/07 20:45, s. keeling wrote:
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 06/14/07 16:19, s. keeling wrote:
[copious output snipped]
I rest my case.
User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian)
No wonder it wanted to pull in 145 packages: you're a text mode
octogenarian! You're probably also
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 09:53:40PM +, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Larry Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
So! If you want lprng... - after a fresh install of linux:
1) Stop the cups processes:
for i in /etc/init.d/cups*; do; $i stop; done
2) Edit the init scripts for
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:36:57PM +, s. keeling wrote:
This is on Etch with Desktop Environment de-selected on install (no
Gnome or KDE :-). Perhaps my mistake was in installing xserver-xorg
before printer configuration. Surely then, it would notice there'd be
no web browser it could be
CaT [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:36:57PM +, s. keeling wrote:
This is on Etch with Desktop Environment de-selected on install (no
Gnome or KDE :-). Perhaps my mistake was in installing xserver-xorg
before printer configuration. Surely then, it would notice there'd be
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:29:49AM +, s. keeling wrote:
aptitude -R install foomatic-filters-ppds
And what does apt-get install foomatic-filters-ppds get you?
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(0) heretic /home/keeling_ dpkg -L foomatic-filters-ppds | wc -l
2696
That doesn't
Ok, problem solved by adding either socket:// in case of JetDirect or lpd://
in case of unix-server in front of the queue-name.
Try with this program:
http://sign-el-soft.hu/cgi/ng-xim.en.html
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Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
I have scanned document images that are jpeg files.
But I want to print them so that they fill the whole printed page.
It doesn't seem to work :-(
The images are 1204x1644. With Imagemagick or feh they show up
fullscreen, but when I print them they keep filling
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:12:47AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Anybody know how to make a jpeg image fill the entire printed page and
print it as such?
I manage it in a ridiculous way: I display them with:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/wordpress
and adjust the size of the
Patrick,
You will no doubt recall our e-mail exchange on the Debian user list in
November 2005, where you first drew my attention to your page about WP8
and Debian. Four sources enabled me to get WP8 up and running: your
page, Rick Moen's WordPerfect on Linux FAQ
* Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061113 15:13]:
I am running Debian Etch and using the gnome desktop. I also have cups
installed as well as some KDE apps.
When I go to the CUPS printer administration page I can print test pages to
all my networked printers. I can also print to the
IB. wrote:
charles norwood wrote:
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 10:27 -0400, Daniel B. wrote:
...
Also, given that the spurious characters appear at different places in
the printout when I try again suggests that something random is going
on (dropped or extra characters in the output stream), which
Aaron Hall wrote:
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Jos� Alburquerque wrote:
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
tcsh has the feature of printing time automatically after each
command executed (time variable). it also has 'precmd' and 'postcmd'
aliases that are executed (if set) before and after any
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:32:03AM -0400, José Alburquerque wrote:
However, I do admit that using time for commands is probably a lot
better. Besides, I can never get a precise time with just inserting
the date in the prompt because if the terminal sits idle for some time,
the time in
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
On 13.10.06 08:19, Ken Irving wrote:
The -t option to script gives precise timing of output to the terminal,
and could be post-processed to yield the timing you're looking for.
tcsh has the feature of printing time automatically after each command
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Jos� Alburquerque wrote:
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
tcsh has the feature of printing time automatically after each
command executed (time variable). it also has 'precmd' and 'postcmd'
aliases that are executed (if set) before and after any command
executed.
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:30:58PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
I will agree that, if you only have a few commands that you regularly
want timed, then an alias is probably the easiest way to do it.
I have the following alias: alias pr='pr -F -l 59', and it works just
fine, no recursion at
On 12.10.06 13:58, James Richardson wrote:
What is the best way to print from a chroot?
I'd say, printing to print server running on localhost interface.
(cups or , lpr(-ng(), doesn't matter)
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On 12.10.06 19:10, José Alburquerque wrote:
Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute
the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the
prompt of a bash shell.
you could try to insert the current date into your prompt (PS1) string, if
you want it
On 2006-10-12 @ 19:10:33 (week 41) José Alburquerque wrote:
Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute
the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the
prompt of a bash shell.
Currently, I have my bash prompt set up so that it displays the
J.A. de Vries wrote:
You could use PROMPT_COMMAND for this. I do to create a sort of statusbar in my
shells (with the added help of tput).
Found out about this last night using man. :-)
I've copied the relevant parts of the code I wrote for that below. Just add it
to your bashrc, adjust the
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
you could try to insert the current date into your prompt (PS1) string, if
you want it this way.
also, looking at 'man bash', there's special variable:
PROMPT_COMMAND
If set, the value is executed as a command prior to issuing each
primary prompt.
If
José Alburquerque wrote:
Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute
the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the
prompt of a bash shell.
Oops. Sorry about re-send. Just ignore this please.
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Looking at things differently...
Can you not use the unix time command to display the process times on
completion?
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On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:32:03AM -0400, José Alburquerque wrote:
However, I do admit that using time for commands is probably a lot
better. Besides, I can never get a precise time with just inserting
the date in the prompt because if the terminal sits idle for some time,
the time in
Dave Whiteley wrote:
Looking at things differently...
Can you not use the unix time command to display the process times on
completion?
Dave
I take it you're referring to the same command already mentioned by
Roberto and others. Right?
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José Alburquerque [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute
the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the
prompt of a bash shell.
If you're using bash, try something like this:
PS1='@$SECONDS $ '
Scott Gifford wrote:
If you're using bash, try something like this:
PS1='@$SECONDS $ '
PS4='@$SECONDS: '
set -x
That will show you the number of seconds since the shell started up in
your prompt, and before running each command. Plain seconds are nice
and easy to subtract; if
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 01:58:04PM -0400, James Richardson wrote:
Hi,
What is the best way to print from a chroot?
I have a 32bit chroot setup for oo.
Using CUPS.
Regards,
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On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:10:57PM -0400, José Alburquerque wrote:
Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute
the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the
prompt of a bash shell.
Currently, I have my bash prompt set up so that it displays
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:10:57PM -0400, José Alburquerque wrote:
Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute
the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the
prompt of a bash shell.
Currently, I have my bash prompt
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 08:51:29PM -0400, José Alburquerque wrote:
I guess I could do that, it's just that I use certain commands almost
instinctively and sometimes I forget. A lot of times I'm running
certain processes one after the other in several shells. It is after
I've run them that
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
If it is always the same commands, then consider setting them to use the
time command as an alias.
For example, if you always want to know how long a dd took, then use
something like `alias dd='/usr/bin/time /usr/bin/dd'`.
Of course, you will need to use dd and not
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 08:51:29PM -0400, José Alburquerque wrote:
I guess I could do that, it's just that I use certain commands almost
instinctively and sometimes I forget. A lot of times I'm running
certain processes one after the other in several shells. It
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:58:04 -0400, James Richardson wrote:
What is the best way to print from a chroot?
I have a 32bit chroot setup for oo.
IIRC, the solution is to setup a local print server. in chroot, lp/lpr
talk to the local print server.
HTH
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:58:04 -0400, James Richardson wrote:
What is the best way to print from a chroot?
I have a 32bit chroot setup for oo.
or, you may be able to solve the problem the other way round.
- disable host cupsys and start chroot cupsys. print from chroot.
this I've proved
T
What is the best way to print from a chroot?
I have a 32bit chroot setup for oo.
or, you may be able to solve the problem the other way round.
- disable host cupsys and start chroot cupsys. print from chroot.
this I've proved to be working fine.
- use chroot wrapper for host lp/lpr,
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 09:43:31AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
In the last week or so I'm finding that printing some pages (not all) in
Firefox crashes it. Googling shows quite a lot of similar reports and
there is a bug report (#344401) in Debian for the same thing. However,
nearly all
On 05 Oct 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote:
In the last week or so I'm finding that printing some pages (not all) in
Firefox crashes it. Googling shows quite a lot of similar reports and
there is a bug report (#344401) in Debian for the same thing. However,
nearly all these seem to relate to Cups,
Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 05 Oct 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote:
In the last week or so I'm finding that printing some pages (not all) in
Firefox crashes it. Googling shows quite a lot of similar reports and
there is a bug report (#344401) in Debian for the same thing. However,
nearly all these
Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 05 Oct 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote:
In the last week or so I'm finding that printing some pages (not all) in
Firefox crashes it. Googling shows quite a lot of similar reports and
there is a bug report (#344401) in Debian for the same thing. However,
nearly all
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HELP ME TO GET MY PRINTER WORKING
http://www.linuxprinting.org/lexmark-faq.html
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HELP ME TO GET MY PRINTER WORKING
not seem to apply to text files (which get written directly
to the printer).
It seems as if ... something got out of sync between the stream of
printer commands from the rasterizer and the printer itself
...
Re-printing the same document the same way ... yields errors in
different locations
to be random. Re-printing the same
document the same way (e.g., printing a text document through enscript
or printing a web page from a browser) yields errors in different
locations.
It does not seem to be a cabling or printer unreliability problem:
- I haven't even unplugged the printer or printer
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 18:19:37 -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:46:23PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
Did you try purging all cupsys packages and reinstalling them? I think
there were a few cases recently where old cups config files screwed up
the new version of CUPS.
Carl Fink wrote:
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:26:34PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
How about this:
If the file you're trying to print doesn't have proprietary
or trade secret info in it, I volunteer to try printing it
using Acrobat Reader on my machine, and see whether I have
similar problems.
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 04:29:31AM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote:
See my previous fun with CUPS and KDE in a few different bug reports.
Running Sid, I had to comment out the line in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf:
#Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
then restart CUPS in order for my local printer to be
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 13:17:41 -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 04:29:31AM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote:
See my previous fun with CUPS and KDE in a few different bug reports.
Running Sid, I had to comment out the line in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf:
#Listen
Carl Fink wrote:
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:26:34PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
How about this:
If the file you're trying to print doesn't have proprietary
or trade secret info in it, I volunteer to try printing it
using Acrobat Reader on my machine, and see whether I have
similar problems.
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 14:24 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Carl Fink wrote:
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:26:34PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
How about this:
If the file you're trying to print doesn't have proprietary
or trade secret info in it, I volunteer to try printing it
using Acrobat
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:17:41PM EDT, Carl Fink wrote:
[..]
So what the heck is going on?
Never had any problems printing .gov forms on a linux system with cups
and a native ps printer so I thought I'd give it a shot:
. gpdf never displays the document.. 100% cpu.. had to issue a kill
. gv
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:24:44PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
What is your goal? To get a copy of the form, or to get your
printer working? I mean your immediate goal. Eventually, of
course, you want to be able to print anything. If your goal
is just to get the form, then I suggest using
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:46:23PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
Did you try purging all cupsys packages and reinstalling them? I think
there were a few cases recently where old cups config files screwed up
the new version of CUPS.
Of course, purging all CUPS files will also remove (and I
Okay, purging and reinstalling CUPS let me print again. This makes the
third time I've had to do that in a month. Not a good record.
Installing msttcorefonts had no effect on printing from Acrobat Reader, but
it DID allow me to print the page correctly from xpdf. Apparently xpdf
silently
Carl Fink wrote:
Should I file a wishlist bug, requesting that xpdf suggest msttcorefonts,
given that PDF creators including the US government assume everyone uses
Windows and has Arial?
No, you should read xpdf(5) (that's not xpdf(1)).
Matěj
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On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:24:22PM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote:
Carl Fink wrote:
Should I file a wishlist bug, requesting that xpdf suggest msttcorefonts,
given that PDF creators including the US government assume everyone uses
Windows and has Arial?
No, you should read xpdf(5) (that's not
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 00:13:22 +0300, David Baron wrote:
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 23:21, Carl Fink wrote:
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:11:19PM +0300, David Baron wrote:
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 21:59, Arthur Marsh wrote:
Carl Fink wrote:
This is interesting. I installed kpdf to try
Carl Fink wrote:
This is interesting. I installed kpdf to try to get this stupid page
printed, and it says that it can't connect to the CUPS server, which is
clearly there and which other programs can print to just fine. On the other
hand, gpdf can't even DISPLAY the page correctly.
Carl Fink wrote:
[that he couldn't print a PDF file]
How about this:
If the file you're trying to print doesn't have proprietary
or trade secret info in it, I volunteer to try printing it
using Acrobat Reader on my machine, and see whether I have
similar problems. This would at least provide
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