Re: Okular vs printer, okular 1, printer 0
On Tuesday 24 February 2015 10:16:24 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 February 2015 04:47:14 Curt wrote:
> > On 2015-02-24, Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> wrote:
> > >> Why not print a page range?
> >
> > I fail to understand why you don't print a test page from the CUPS
> > interface, after having selected duplex printing as a default printing
> > option. I don't know what this would tell us if it did (or didn't) work,
> > but less trees might suffer in the interim. Perhaps duplex printing as a
> > default option in the CUPS web interface is unavailable.
>
> Apparently that only works using the brother drivers. I can run it in
> postscript mode too, but in that mode the cups test page crashes it,
> and it crashes at the end of any print job sent to it, in all cases
> needing a power cycle to restore it for the next job.
>
> The brother drivers have all the duplex operations visible in the
> localhost:631 access, but there is absolutely no facility in wheezy that
> can use it, those options are in the printer dialogs presented by any
> other program from geany thru evince and okular, all show the duplex
> operations ghosted out and unavailable.
>
> The point being that all of this worked flawlessly for ubuntu-10.04.4 LTS.
>
> Someone said that libpoppler can't do duplex, but wheezy is supposed to be
> newer. I have the old drive mounted, so I'll just go check libpoppler
> versions.
>
> Here is what I can find:
> root@coyote:/etc/default# ls -l `locate poppler|grep '/opt' -`
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2127836 Jun 11 2012
> /mnt/ltsslash/opt/calibre/lib/libpoppler.so.25 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root
> 2127836 Jun 11 2012 /opt/calibre/lib/libpoppler.so.25 -rw-r--r-- 1 root
> root 49076 Nov 25 10:23 /opt/trinity/lib/libpoppler-tqt.so lrwxrwxrwx 1
> root root 23 Nov 25 10:22 /opt/trinity/lib/libpoppler-tqt.so.0 ->
> libpoppler-tqt.so.0.0.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49080 Nov 25 10:23
> /opt/trinity/lib/libpoppler-tqt.so.0.0.0 root@coyote:/etc/default# ls -l
> `locate poppler|grep '/usr/lib' -` -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167400 Nov 8
> 2011 /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/kde4/okularGenerator_poppler.so lrwxrwxrwx 1
> root root 24 Apr 4 2013 /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/libpoppler-glib.so.4
> -> libpoppler-glib.so.4.0.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191248 Mar 28 2013
> /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/libpoppler-glib.so.4.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root
> 23 Aug 15 2014 /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/libpoppler-qt4.so.3 ->
> libpoppler-qt4.so.3.2.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 453476 Mar 28 2013
> /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/libpoppler-qt4.so.3.2.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root
> 19 Apr 4 2013 /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/libpoppler.so.5 ->
> libpoppler.so.5.0.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1853748 Mar 28 2013
> /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/libpoppler.so.5.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38
> Sep 4
> 08:20 /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/poppler.so ->
> /usr/lib/pyshared/python2.6/poppler.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66896 Jan
> 25 2010 /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/pyshared/python2.6/poppler.so lrwxrwxrwx 1
> root root 24 Feb 3 22:15 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpoppler-glib.so.8
> -> libpoppler-glib.so.8.2.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 238940 Mar 25 2013
> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpoppler-glib.so.8.2.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root
> 23 Mar 25 2013 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpoppler-qt4.so.3 ->
> libpoppler-qt4.so.3.7.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 345440 Mar 25 2013
> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpoppler-qt4.so.3.7.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root
> 20 Feb 3 22:15 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpoppler.so.19 ->
> libpoppler.so.19.0.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1922928 Mar 25 2013
> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpoppler.so.19.0.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17768
> Jun 3 2012
> /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/tumbler-1/plugins/tumbler-poppler-thumbnailer.so
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184568 Nov 28 2012
> /usr/lib/kde4/okularGenerator_poppler.so
>
> This obviously shows the version trinity installed, which I did yesterday
> because wheezy's kmail version 1.13.7 has broken font rendering in the
> message window as described in about 15 posts to the list with no solution
> that worked offered. I'd file a bug but my wall is so full of scribbled
> passwds that I cannot find the one I want the next time I need it now.
>
> kmail 1.9.5, except for a lack of a dbus port, just works.
>
> The above list is a bit confusing but if I can get that so.25 version
> linked correctly, it would be my next attempt to solve this problem.
> Someone said that it was the wheezy version of it that cannot do
> duplex. It works, with the above gotcha's if I use a postscript level 1
> driver in cups. Does anyone have a clue how old level 1 is? Several
> decades. We already had level 2 support in ghostscript when I built it
> at version 5.02 on an amiga in the middle 90's. I have a copy of the
> postscript level 3 specification on the shelf above me thats at least
> 15 years old, printed from that same amiga.
>
> I see by the above list that kde has its own, less than 10% of the size
> of the so.25 that calibre uses.
FWIW, I loaded a pdf into calibre, it showed me only a thumbnail of the cover
page, and I crashed it looking for a print this option. Apparently it can
only deal with e-pubs and I don't have any according to locate.
I did find another libpoppler in backports, installed it, but okular is still
emasculated. Sniff.
The printer in question is a Brother HL-3170CDW. Running on Brothers own linux
drivers.
Can anyone else duplicate this problem?
> If indeed its libpopplers problem, how about getting everybody on the
> same page, using just one version that works for everyone? This install has
7 (now 8) versions!
> Can we please introduce the left hand to the right hand here?
> I will install calibre here, and see if it is so crippled. Stay tuned.
Thanks Charles.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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