Re: acroread not seeing printers
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:09:22 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 10:49 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote:
>> "John A. Sullivan III" writes:
>>
>> > On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 13:05 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Make sure that LID_LIBRARY_PATH points to the location for libcups
>> >> and also CUPS lp and lpr are in PATH.
>> >>
>> >> When you invoke the print dialog using Control+P, all the printers
>> >> configured show up in the Printer Name dropdown. ***
>> >>
>> >> I'm not sure how to check this in Debian, maybe someone else can
>> >> give you a hint on this :-)
>> > <snip>
>> > Thanks. I tried setting LID_LIBRARY_PATH and I know the binaries are
>> > in the path but it didn't help :(
>>
>> I don't know if you noticed, but I think that should be
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH, without the extra 'I'. I don't know enough to help
>> otherwise.
> <snip>
> Argh!! I did upgrade to acroreat 9.3.1 from multimedia unstable upon
> these responses and the referenced article which was based upon 9.x. I
> even set a LID_LIBRARY_PATH variable in case it was not a typo. It
> still doesn't work. Setting the command line debugging variable, I
> found that it cannot find the PPD file.
Ughhh, yes, *it's a typo* (I copied/pasted from the site and didn't
notice the error either) :-/.
Correct value is "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" as Carl pointed-out.
> Does it only work if the CUPS
> server is running locally? In our case, we use a central CUPS server
> running on a non-standard port. This is reflected in
> /etc/cups/client.conf. How do we tell acroread where the printer server
> and PPD files are? Thanks - John
Mmmm, that should not affect. If you can print from other programs,
Acroread should do the same. If it fails, it sounds to me like a bug on
their side.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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