Re: Printing: Cups & XPDF

[tallison@tacocat.net]

> On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:57:26AM -0500, tallison@tacocat.net wrote:
>> 'lpr'  It's baked into the xpdf button, but that's what it's issuing.
>> It hits the cups server.
>
> Ok, that means that xpdf is producing the disaster that it thinks is
> Postscript, and sending it to CUPS.  CUPS isn't seeing the PDF directly,
> it's seeing the result of 'pdftops | lpr'.
>
> I've seen Postscript produced by xpdf repeatedly crash Postscript
> printers.
> I suppose it could do the same thing to Ghostscript (what CUPS is using
> internally to render PS files).
>
> CUPS uses pdftops from xpdf-utils to render a PDF file into Postscript,
> so sending the PDF directly to CUPS is no test.
>
> Try this:
>
> $ pdf2ps nameofpdffile | lpr
>

Tried this, it fails as well.

I should point out that I have a PS complient laser printer.
I should also point out that lpr does know what printer to print to if I
do something as trivial as 'lpr < foo.txt'.  It comes put just fine.