Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy

[Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com>]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 10:41:55AM +0000, Brian wrote:
> On Thu 01 Mar 2012 at 21:51:09 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 01:18:22PM +0000, Brian wrote:
> > > 
> > > What is the result of
> > > 
> > >    file <your_supposed_ppd_file> ?
> > 
> > UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text
> 
> This is the norm here:
> 
>    brian@desktop:/usr/share/ppd/cups-pdf$ file CUPS-PDF.ppd 
>    CUPS-PDF.ppd: PPD file, version "4.3"
> 
> The error you got is reproducible by removing the first line of a ppd
> 
>    *PPD-Adobe: "4.3"

I see I have a couple leading characters of garbage. Removing them,
I now get "/etc/cups/interfaces/HL-5340D_native_ppd failed"
Worth getting a virgin copy of the ppd to be sure (although
I'm doing fine with the PCL6 driver ATM.)

Thanks for persisting.

-- 
Joel Roth