Re: got a new one
On Thursday 21 December 2017 12:08:33 Brian wrote:
> On Thu 21 Dec 2017 at 11:41:01 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Thursday 21 December 2017 06:51:56 Brian wrote:
> > > Considering you have lead the discussion back to your invoice
> > > problem I'll ask whether the PDF evince produces is viewable,
> >
> > Yes, exactly as expected.
>
> Ok, you have just shown that evince produces a decent PDF which looks
> suitable to send to CUPS. In other words, the blank page you got does
> not apparently involve anything evince has done.
>
> Now send this PDF to CUPS with
>
> lp -d <destination_print_queue> <d-file_from_/var/spool/cups>
>
> <destination_print_queue> will have to re-enabled with
>
> cupsenable <destination_print_queue>
>
> Does this print?
>
> > > and shows what
> > > you expect, using what is outlined in
> > >
> > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/12/msg00584.html
> >
> > cupsdisable <destination_print_queue>
> >
> > and send the invoice from evince to be printed. Look in
> > /var/spool/cups for a file beginning with "d" and view it in a PDF
> > viewer. Also use pdfinfo and pdffonts to compare this PDF and the
> > original one.
> >
> > Use cupsenable to revert the first command.
> >
> > Its not possible, because a disabled printer is ghosted in the
> > printer selection menu, yes I do have additional printers, full
> > color and 2% of the speed of the $110 HL2140. It can do this is 30
> > seconds including drum warmup time. The tabloid sized 6920, an mfc,
> > hasn't even sorted out which paper tray to use in that same 30
> > seconds.
>
> Please see above. Maybe I should have spelled out the full command.
>
> > Would I get the same results sending to cups-pdf?
>
> No. cups-pdf uses CUPS; CUPS was disabled for the test you did. Its
> purpose was to determine whether evince was producing a blank PDF. It
> wasn't.
>
> > I can turn that option off on a job by job basis I assume.
>
> You mean cupsdisable? You could, but it wouldn't ordinarily be used.
No, I was referring to the rotate and fit option. About the only place
where I could actually make sense of that would be in printing camera
images where the camera may have been held up-down for a portrait image.
Thanks Brian.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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