Re: Printing from Acrobat

[Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com>]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 04:29:31AM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote:

> See my previous "fun" with CUPS and KDE in a few different bug reports.
> 
> Running Sid, I had to comment out the line in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf:
> 
> #Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
> 
> then restart CUPS in order for my local printer to be visible under 
> KDE's printers, and after setting the CUPS printer as the local default 
> there, all was well.

Didn't help me, though.

Problem maybe identified.  When I tried pdf2ps, it complained that the Arial
font should have been embedded, but wasn't.  Of course this can't be a
problem on modern Windows boxes, because they come with Arial.  Maybe I just
need to learn how to alias some Helvetica-like font to "Arial" for xorg
(which I have no idea how to do).

Of course, in reality all I have to do is print the document from my
Windows-running laptop, but this isn't a good thing for Debian.  And I have
no idea how someone on this list printed the file using Sid.  Do you have
Arial as an alias somewhere?

While writing this I wanted to try to print again, but I noticed that CUPS
is now not running?  So I tried to restart it, but it refuses to start--when
I run "/etc/init.d/cupsys start" it prints the last page I printed yesterday
(?) then exits with no error message in /var/log/cups/error_log.

So I tried reinstall lprng.  (I never much liked CUPS.)  Unfortunately,
according to the manual in lprng-doc, it doesn't support usb printers(!).

So what the heck is going on?
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Carl Fink                                 carl@finknetwork.com
If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be.
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