On 26/06/18 10:13 AM, Simon Becherer wrote:
Am 26.06.2018 um 15:39 schrieb Darryl Gregorash:
On 2018-06-25 09:02 AM, Simon Becherer wrote:
somewhere between my updates the standard behavior of cups has also changed:
from sending postscript to sending pdf Might this be the reason why the Brother driver for my DCP-7040 stopped working in Leap 15.0? It was working OK in 42.1. Now, CUPS says it has sent the data to the printer, but there is no response at the printer.
socket://192.168.0.11:35/?version=1.1 if it is a old network printer its the (missing) version string who cause this problem. (i have had similar situation sending data, but nothing happends, but between other opensuse versions)
if your printer did not understand pdf (because its old) check if there are new ppd out there for the pdf to ps problem. and/or, as explained from john andersen, try change the settings to send send raw data
While that's reasonable in one sense, I'm not sure in the greater sense. I can see it making sense in the case of the (many) PDF documents I have, but they aren't the only thing I want to print. My printer groks postscript, heck I paid extra for that, always have since postscript was taken to be the UNIX/Linux 'standard' for printing. I can see PDF->PS in the case of documents that are native PDF, but not all. If I want to print email (which is plain text (or possibly HTML enhanced), a web page or many other things, then I don't want to go {text,html,ebook}->PDF->PS. Even if the process isn't lossy it seems wasteful. I realise that in some applications there is the 'print to file, then save as .PS' option, but why should I have to go though that manual procedure and then RAW print the resulting .PS file? Why can't I just send it through a {text,html,ebook}->PS and then straight to the RAW printer? Oh, wait, there are some nice pretty-printers for email as well; I recall some PS based one from the UNIX days ... I wonder what was used? Was it 'enscript'? Was there a macro package for that? I don't see it bundled now and googling, it seems that 'enscript' is a encryption program! -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org