Steve Dowe wrote:
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 17:26, Tim Nicholson wrote:
Printing from XP/W2k fails with an "unsupported format 'application/octet-stream'" error.
I have tried turning filtering on and off, which only serves to let firefox print 2 lines of raw data and stop. The Win98 box prints happily in either mode!
What next to try??
-- Tim Nicholson
Hi Tim
I think the answer might be that you haven't enabled the mime type "application/octet-stream" in the cups config files. This problem has caught me out before.
In my version (SUSE 9.2), the files you would need to look at are: /etc/cups/mime.convs
Had missed this one :(
/etc/cups/mime.types
Had done that one :)
Now W2k/XP printing seems to work fine without having to have a Raw stream to the same printer as the filtered one. No idea why W98 was OK beofre though... However I still cannot get another PC with Suse to print reliably to it, I still keep getting "empty print file" entries in the error_log for mozilla and others, but not Kate! -- Tim Nicholson http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this.