Re: Recently, CUPS and my Laserjet hate PDF's
Nick Lidakis nlidakis@verizon.net wrote:
> After many years of printing bliss using CUPS and a HP LaserJet 4000,
> something seems to be wrong when attempting to print PDF's.
> <snip>
> I'm able to print HTML web pages via Firefox and sample .ps files, e.g.,
> that postscript tiger. Googling around reveals that some people had a
> problem with something called pdftops, but these messages were from 2007
> or 2008.
>
> Any idea on how to fix this? I haven't messed with CUPS's ppd driver
> files.
>
> I'm using up-to-date unstable, kernel 2.6.32, CUPS version: 1.4.2-8, and
> the Laserjet is connected via the router to its NIC
I have had the same problem recently. PDF's seem to be sent to the
printer, but nothing gets printed.
This is up-to-date Lenny, with CUPS 1.3.11-1+b1, and a Brother HL5250DN
printer, which suggests that the problem is not with CUPS itself or the
printer or printer drivers. Something like conversion to postscript
maybe. I have no pdftops installed. (I suppose a2ps is what would be
used on my system.) It used to work fine, but no more. I work around it
by converting to postscript some other way and printing the .ps file.
regards cgm
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