New subject: [opensuse-amd64] Printing woes under 10.2

24 Apr 2007


      Thank you for your suggestion.  I will look into it.  When I get the
garbled printout --at least in some cases where I retained the initial
sheet, I do see             %!PS-Adobe-3.0            printed (most
probably out of Firefox), so maybe the filter is not prepared for it.  I
need to investigate what initialization string kghostview outputs. 
Maybe the filter expects PS- Adobe 3.1.  I think trapping the output of
kghostview (which works) may solve the mystery.

CF

David Gluss wrote:
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Yes, that's the issue.
I used to know how the queue worked, but I believe that the filters
would still look for a particular set of characters at the beginning
of the print job to decide what to do.  So that if the job begins with
#%PS-Adobe, for example, a postscript filter would be invoked; that
is the string used by e.g. enscript (see /etc/enscript.cfg).  Maybe
the filter looks for PS-Adobe-3.0 and Netscape is printing PS-Adobe-3.1
or some such?
David Gluss
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-----Original Message-----
From: Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas [mailto:fantanas@innocent.com] 
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 11:36 AM
To: David Gluss
Cc: opensuse-amd64@opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [opensuse-amd64] Printing woes under 10.2
David Gluss wrote:
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Doesn't the Laserjet have a built-in Postscript interpreter?
DG
--I don't know.  If it does have a built-in Postscript interpreter, that
should not mean that foomatic-rip is totally bypassed.  Am I correct? 
Foomatic-rip should decide to basically do nothing, but foomatic-rip
should still be invoked.  Now, if foomatic-rip at work behaves the way
it does at home when I try to print a file from within Firefox or
Acrobat Reader (getting the arguments garbled and passing raw PS
commands to the printer), that would conceal the problem I am having
because the printer at work understands Postscript.  So, the SuSE 10.2
at work may still have the same problem, but I am lucky because the
printer understands Postscript. Interesting theory!   In such a case,
analyzing the pertinent configuration files from work would probably not
solve my problem at home.
CF
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-----Original Message-----
From: Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas [mailto:fantanas@innocent.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 9:21 PM
To: Klaus Singvogel; opensuse-amd64@opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [opensuse-amd64] Printing woes under 10.2
Hi,
I have no news because I was tied up with work and have not been able 
to try your suggestions.  I am planning to do something about this 
issue over the weekend.  I remember facing the same problem when I 
tried to print a PDF file from inside Acrobat Reader; again no problem
...
when the file was opened with and printed from kghostview.
One other thing I would like to mention is that at work I have set up 
a Linux server for a lab.  It runs 64-bit OpenSuSE 10.2 on an Intel 
Core 2 Duo.  I don't have any problem printing at work.  Sure, the 
printer is different (Laserjet at work vs. my 8450 Inkjet at home), 
but my problems at home seem to be related to the arguments passed to 
and/or parsed by the foomatic filter, not with the PPD file.  The 
major difference I see between the two machines (aside from the 
processors) is that on my machine at home I started with SuSE 9.1, 
then upgraded to 9.2, 9.3, 10.0, skipped 10.1 and, finally, upgraded 
to 10.2.  On the machine at work, I started with OpenSuSE 10.1 and 
then upgraded to 10.2.  So,I begin to suspect that something may have 
not been updated right on my machine at home, where I see the problem.
Since I have access to the lab server at work, I will compare the 
configuration files for CUPS and foomatic-rip between the two 
machines, as well as firefox settings.  Something has GOT to be
different!
...
CF
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