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Re: kprinter: error after upgrade



Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
> Philipp Pagel wrote:

> [...]

> > But if I try to print via kprinter a dialog Box pops up saying
> > 
> > "Error while printing file"
> > 
> > followed by
> > 
> > (Catastropy! - KNotify)
> > "A print error occurred. Error message received from system:
> > 
> > Error while reading filter description for true. Empty command line
> > received."
> > 
> > And the follwoing error message goes to STDERR:
> > "QFile::open: No file name specified"

> I used to have this problem, too. (It seems to be fixed in Sid now.) I
> found out that it was caused by a broken filter which had been left in
> place after some print job. If that is also the case for you, then you
> should be able to fix it: When the KPrinter dialog comes up, select
> "Properties" and find the "Filter" tab. You will probably have to use
> the scroll buttons since this tab is all the way to the right. If there
> is a filter listed, select it and press the delete button (white cross
> on red or gray background). This always fixed it for me.

That worked for me, too. Thanks for the help! 

cu
	Philipp

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Dept. of Genome Oriented Bioinformatics    Fax. +49-8161-71 2186
Technical University of Munich
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