Re: [gentoo-user] printing pdfs

[james <garftd@verizon.net>]

On 5/29/20 1:20 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 04:11:46PM -0400, james wrote:
>> Pdfs are becoming a challenge to print. I'm sure I'll be printing pdf files
>> for decades to come.
>>
>> So what application/strategy gets me past errors like this:
>>
>> "Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (version 0x50e01) with this library
>> (version 0x50e02)"
> 
> How is your printer connected ?  If it's using  The  Common  Unix  Print  System
> (C.U.P.S.) as many do, try the lpr command (from `net-print/cups`).  The  server
> on which C.U.P.S.\ is running is specified with the `-H <address>` argument, and
> various options can be specified with `-o <key=value>`.
> 
> To take the example from the man page of lpr:
> 
>          Print a double-sided legal document to a printer called "foo":
>          $ lpr -P foo -o media=legal -o sides=two-sided-long-edge filename
> 
> If your printer is remote, as mine is (on a server called `genserv`), you can do
> the following:
> 
>          $ lpr -H genserv -o sides=two-sided-long-edge paper.pdf

works great !
> 
> This is not a suggestion that you abandon the issue  of  mismatched  Qt  library
> versions, but rather a simple workaround to use while the  various  Qt  programs
> get up-to-date with the latest versions of the libraries. 

Yea, the QT issues, happen every time the bleeding edge (of qt) 
releases. Once I get the packages all upgraded, the bleeding edge qt 
stuff works great (thanks to all the gentooers that work on qt!).....


> Providing C.U.P.S.\ is
> configured correctly with all the appropriate `ppd` files  for  your  particular
> printer model, lpr should work out-of-the-box.

After thumping all teh cups codes, it works again, but some office files 
from a pc that were originated in europe, cause the print to hickup. The 
hp printer complained about version 1.... version 2 on the tiny hp 
display. Rebooted several times and all my linux printing started 
working again. I have the original hp firmware (10 years old). I do not 
trust the updated hp firmwares, for several reason....

Thanks Ashley