On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 06:31, Phil Burness wrote:
On Sunday 25 April 2004 19:59, Brad Shelton wrote:
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 02:26, Matt T. wrote:
I repost this, because unfortunately the upgrade to kde 3.2.2 (SuSE 9.0) did not solve the problem, and I really miss this feature.
Any ideas out there how to fix this:
On Thursday 18 March 2004 12:35, Matt T. wrote:
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 21:10, Phil Burness wrote:
If I select print preview while trying to print within KDE the print preview window opens with a print and cancel button but no preview of the page to be printed. Pressing the print button prints the page though.
I'm using CUPS as the printer interface.
Anybody any idea whats wrong?
Sorry, no solution, but the same problem. preview shown just a thin garbage line, and the buttons as you describe.
Try reinstalling ghostscript and related packages.
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Yes, that looks like a good start. I think I did that several times already, when the problem appeared first, which was after the upgrade of kde 3.1.4 to kde 3.2.x (not sure if 3.1.4 -> 3.2.0 or 3.2.0 -> 3.2.1).
Now I have installed: :~> gs -v
ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1 (2003-07-12)
:~> gv -v
gv 3.5.8
What does make me think that this is not so much a ghostscript problem is that - printing does work, only kde print preview does not - kghostview works perfectly.
e.g. Preview a file in a kde app (kword/kwrite/konqui) does produce the empty page described above. However printing the same file to a .ps file and viewing it in kghostview works fine.
Which application is kde using to do a print preview? Isn't it kghostview?
Thanks, Matt I've upgraded to KDE3.2 and I still have the problem too. I never got a fix. Interestingly though, I originally upgraded from 8.2 to 9.0 and I didn't have
On Monday 26 April 2004 03:24, Matt T. wrote: the problem. It was only after I did a fresh install of 9.0 that I lost the print preview.
I had the problem too. I was using LPRNG at the time because it was so much easier to get print serving working for the win2k machine my daughter uses. After upgrading KDE, my printing stopped working as well. I decided to try converting back to cups just to see if it would fix local printing and it did, but not until I removed all printing related pacakges and resintalled. The only problem is, converting to cups caused the win2k machine to become unable to print to my printer any longer. I noticed in the log files errors indicating a problem with the external postscript parser (don't remember the exact error syntax, off hand) so I then decided a re-install of the ESP Ghostscript packages might show further progress. Voila! Printing now works and after I spent the time researching how to get samba to use cups properly with print services on my pretend NT file/print server, all is well and working as it should. Just browse the network, find the printers, click, answer yes to "would you like to install this printer?" and the drivers are uploaded to the win2k box just like she's-a s'posed ta. Ching! So... in summary, I would uninstall first -- all printing related packages and all ghostscript related packages and save out of software install in YaST. Then I would go into "Hardware | Printer" and reinstall the printer from scratch. The system will prompt you for re/installing your printer daemon where you would chosse cupsd. Go from there as you did originally. Save out. Go back into "Software | Install and Remove Software" and search for "ghost". Select all related packages and re/install them, which ever is appropriate. I believe there is a high percentage chance this will fix your problem. I battled with this very issue on a good friend's computer for 3 days, only to realize I skipped a critical trouble-shooting step to cause me days of missing the problem before I went back and followed the very same procedure I describe above, only to have it work. Yea!.... Try it. I think you'll like it. -- Brad Shelton On Line Exchange http://www.ole.net Phone: 313-526-1111 Fax: 313-526-3333