On 03/02/12 17:08, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2012/02/03 16:13 (GMT+1100) Basil Chupin composed:
Anybody else having the same problem or has heard of this happening?
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!
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