On 03/02/12 17:08, Felix Miata wrote:

On 2012/02/03 16:13 (GMT+1100) Basil Chupin composed:

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Anybody else having the same problem or has heard of this happening?

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I just installed KDE4.8 to replace v4.7. I use Dolphin and it uses Kwrite to write/edit text files. I also have an HP 8450 Photosmart printer which happily printed anything in Kwrite - until now.

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The printer will print a perfect test print (using Yast) but just sits there like a stunned mullet when I go to print a Kwrite document - AND the HPLIP Service Status (sitting on my taskbar) shows that the darn thing has successfully printed the Kwrite file!

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Anybody throw some light on this sudden and unexpected behaviour by my HP printer, thanks?

Finally someone besides me reporting this. I've started threads here several times and never get a response at all or none that actually help.

My printer is Canon on IP connection, and always the proprietary drivers were supposedly to blame, but now it seems you're confirming CUPS is actually at least part of the problem. My problem dates back to 11.3. Like you, for me test pages from YaST are no problem. Getting apps to print is another story. Sometimes things just go into the ether. Sometimes the printer errors. Sometimes print succeeds, but once there's a failure, I have to stop CUPS, delete CUPS content from /var, delete the printer in YaST, and add the printer back. KPrint reports a job, but not success, and deleting a job with KPrint only deletes it from KPrint, not from the system. Currently I can print with Firefox, but not web pages, only local plain text files. Printing with Gwenview works. Kwrite I've never had a use for so never tried. For more details you can look up the threads I started, and the WONTFIX Novell Bugzilla bug that claims it's my proprietary driver at fault and not CUPS, even though everything was fine in 11.2.

Just in case, I just deleted the printer (in Yast) and re-installed it. Same results: won't print the Kwrite file I need printed. I just tried to print your post (above) in Thunderbird and I did get a print BUT, but, I wanted it to be printed in LANDSCAPE but this selection was ignored and the message printed in Portrait - and therefore was a total mess as the word-wrap wasn't adhered to and the overflow was printed on a second, totally useless, page. And you say that you were told that the problem lies with "THEM and not US", right? :-( . What a cop out :-( . BC -- A three-year-old boy was examining his testicles while taking a bath. "Mum" he asked, "are these my brains?" "Not yet," she replied. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 06/02/12 18:10, Sujit Karatparambil wrote:

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Just in case, I just deleted the printer (in Yast) and re-installed it. Same results: won't print the Kwrite file I need printed.

Do you mean to say it is a problem with the installer, problem installing some package.

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I just tried to print your post (above) in Thunderbird and I did get a print BUT, but, I wanted it to be printed in LANDSCAPE but this selection was ignored and the message printed in Portrait - and therefore was a total mess as the word-wrap wasn't adhered to and the overflow was printed on a second, totally useless, page. As per you logs, I quote the following.

http://susepaste.org/26490377

So what does this all mean? :-( Who is able to interpret these logs and tell me/us what is wrong with CUPS? BC -- Aspire to inspire before you expire. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 08/02/12 16:00, Malcolm wrote:

On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:50:17 +1100 Basil Chupin wrote:

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On 06/02/12 18:10, Sujit Karatparambil wrote:

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Just in case, I just deleted the printer (in Yast) and re-installed it. Same results: won't print the Kwrite file I need printed. Do you mean to say it is a problem with the installer, problem installing some package.

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I just tried to print your post (above) in Thunderbird and I did get a print BUT, but, I wanted it to be printed in LANDSCAPE but this selection was ignored and the message printed in Portrait - and therefore was a total mess as the word-wrap wasn't adhered to and the overflow was printed on a second, totally useless, page. As per you logs, I quote the following.

http://susepaste.org/26490377

So what does this all mean? :-(

Who is able to interpret these logs and tell me/us what is wrong with CUPS?

BC

Hi Post #3 http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/hardware/470015-b...

Thank you, Malcolm, for this reference. As a result, and some gnashing of teeth :-( , I was able to find and install the very latest hp driver for the Photosmart 8450 (and which Yast Software Manager does not recognise as being installed even though I have issued the 'SuSEconfig' command a number of times). Nevertheless, the HP Device Manager recognises the driver, and even Yast knows about it (I had to delete the old driver setup and allow Yast to "find" the printer yet again and allow me to select the new driver). What now occurs is that, finally, I can get Thunderbird to print out an e-mail in landscape format (and in grey scale) whereas before it would not. That's a big step forward. However, I have had to conclude that Kwrite, like its other KDE friend, Kmail with all its bugs I have been reading about, is as useless as teats on a bull when it comes to printing a text file: the printer simply sits there like a shag on a rock, unmoving, while the on-screen messages inform me that the print job has been sent to the printer and that the print job has successfully finished. (Actually, teats on a bull are more useful than Kwrite come to think of it.....) Anyway, thanks for the link which led me to find the new driver for 12.1. BC -- Aspire to inspire before you expire. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 03/02/12 17:10, Sujit Karatparambil wrote:

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I just installed KDE4.8 to replace v4.7. I use Dolphin and it uses Kwrite to write/edit text files. I also have an HP 8450 Photosmart printer which happily printed anything in Kwrite - until now.

The printer will print a perfect test print (using Yast) but just sits there like a stunned mullet when I go to print a Kwrite document - AND the HPLIP Service Status (sitting on my taskbar) shows that the darn thing has successfully printed the Kwrite file! any logs(CUPS,KDE).

Yes, I took a copy of them. But I won't post them in full in a post but want to upload them to the site (like picpaste) whose name I have forgotten :-( . Can anyone please remind me of the name of that site? BC -- A three-year-old boy was examining his testicles while taking a bath. "Mum" he asked, "are these my brains?" "Not yet," she replied. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 04/02/12 12:07, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On 2012-02-04 01:58, Basil Chupin wrote:

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Yes, I took a copy of them. But I won't post them in full in a post but You can simply find them in the mail archive and post a link to that.

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want to upload them to the site (like picpaste) whose name I have forgotten :-( . Can anyone please remind me of the name of that site? http://susepaste.org/ http://pastebin.com/

No wonder I couldn't remember the names - so difficult to remember! :-D . Thanks Carlos. BC -- A three-year-old boy was examining his testicles while taking a bath. "Mum" he asked, "are these my brains?" "Not yet," she replied. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 04/02/12 12:16, Felix Miata wrote:

On 2012/02/04 11:58 (GMT+1100) Basil Chupin composed:

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I won't post them in full in a post but want to upload them to the site (like picpaste) whose name I have forgotten :-( . Can anyone please remind me of the name of that site?

http://susepaste.org/

Thanks Felix :-) . BC -- A three-year-old boy was examining his testicles while taking a bath. "Mum" he asked, "are these my brains?" "Not yet," she replied. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org