Bob Williams said the following on 04/20/2012 12:01 PM:
Why should a simple text file not print?
The file in question is a perl script, about 4kB in size. When I load it into kate or kwrite, and try to print it out, all the expected print dialogs open, but after clicking the 'Print' button, nothing happens.
CUPS (localhost:631) doesn't even show the job arriving in the print spool.
OTOH, other textfiles will print from kate/kwrite, and the perl script mentioned above _will_ print from LibreOffice writer.
Permissions on the file are 644. I am the owner.
It seems that only KDE apps are affected. I'm using openSUSE 12.1 and KDE 4.8.2
My situation is quite different; I have a printer server machine on the network and the printer is on a parallel port on that machine; so CUPS is at server:631 and I can print from any machine on the network. That includes anyone who brings in a windows machine and connects (directly or wifi) if I fire up samba :-) But then I found it wouldn't print! Drilling down I found that for some obscure reason the printer server started with crw------- 1 root lp 6, 0 2012-04-20 07:09 /dev/lp0 So I got that fixed to crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 2012-04-20 07:09 /dev/lp0 Still no joy. Why? Well cups was running with 'lpadmin' not 'lp' Or was it 'sys'? Check the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf Take a look at how you are submitting jobs. Is it to the xinetd server? In which case check /etc/xinetd.d/cups-lpd -- "Combinatorics -- how to count without counting." - Cassablanca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org