Re: printing/printers
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:48:13PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
A: No.
Q: Should I leave quotes after my reply?
> updating the driver, according to your indications, led to much improved
> printing with openoffice.
>
> However i am still unable to print pdf documents on HP-Deskjet_5740-hijs.ppd.
> kpdf encounters the problem that my pdf documents (pdf of articles from
> scientific literature) are not standard, ie they lack an index. Besides this,
> for the few pages shown, i get the message:
Lack of index is pretty normal for PDF documents, most data sheets for
electronic parts also lack one.
> The MIME type application/postscript is not supported as input of the filter
> chain (this may happen with non-CUPS spoolers when performing page selection
> on a non-PostScript file). Do you want KDE to convert the file to a supported
> format?
Looks like you don't have Cups installed.
> None of the format presented is accepted.
> /usr/log/cups/error_log:
> I [09/Apr/2006:21:51:11 +0200] Listening to 7f000001:631
> I [09/Apr/2006:21:51:11 +0200] Loaded configuration
> file "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf"
> I [09/Apr/2006:21:51:11 +0200] Configured for up to 100 clients.
> I [09/Apr/2006:21:51:11 +0200] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host.
> I [09/Apr/2006:21:51:11 +0200] Full reload is required.
> I [09/Apr/2006:21:51:12 +0200] LoadPPDs: Read "/var/lib/cups/ppds.dat", 14
> PPDs...
> I [09/Apr/2006:21:51:12 +0200] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs...
> I [09/Apr/2006:21:51:13 +0200] Full reload complete.
> I [09/Apr/2006:21:56:57 +0200] Scheduler shutting down normally.
> I [09/Apr/2006:21:58:52 +0200] Listening to 7f000001:631
> I [09/Apr/2006:21:58:52 +0200] Loaded configuration
> file "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf"
> I [09/Apr/2006:21:58:52 +0200] Configured for up to 100 clients.
> I [09/Apr/2006:21:58:52 +0200] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host.
> I [09/Apr/2006:21:58:52 +0200] Full reload is required.
> I [09/Apr/2006:21:58:53 +0200] LoadPPDs: Read "/var/lib/cups/ppds.dat", 14
> PPDs...
> I [09/Apr/2006:21:58:53 +0200] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs...
> I [09/Apr/2006:21:58:53 +0200] Full reload complete.
But this looks like you do.
> The same MIME problems are presented on trying to print jpg files with kview.
> The same jpg file prints correctly with openoffice impress.
>
> With Adobe Reader 7, the windows "printing to HP..." appears and all pages
> appear in sequence, but printing does not occur and nothing is written on the
> error_log for this apparent segmentation error. However, Adobe can print the
> same pdf file by selecting "custom" printer, that is through /usr/bin/lp.
> This mode allows selecting only the page format and takes a lot of ink. (only
> ghostscript is installed on my computer, while lpr and filters (magicfilter
> or apsfilter) are not. I am familiar with LPRng with mainframes but i did not
> try to print with BSD modes on the pc.
I guess Acroread wants BSD lpr utilities. "apt-get install cupsys-bsd"
to install BSD lpr compatibility commands for Cups.
I get the impression you have a mix of Cups and BSD lpr installed on
your machine. Get rid of everything else and only use Cups.
> i hope that a clarification is useful to others as well, unless i am the sole
> to be embarassed with such problems.
It's not clear to me what packages you have installed, so hard to tell
what's wrong. However, your question is not amd64 specific, so you'll
be much better of asking on a more general mailing list like
debian-users.
Erik
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