From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OB9Pp-0004df-4A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 09 May 2010 16:31:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C79C0E044C; Sun, 9 May 2010 16:30:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.mutualdata.com (mail.mutualdata.com [69.63.238.6]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F3C8E044C for ; Sun, 9 May 2010 16:30:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from brego.pewamo.office (UnknownHost [69.63.237.121]) by mail.mutualdata.com with SMTP; Sun, 9 May 2010 12:30:25 -0400 Received: by brego.pewamo.office (Postfix, from userid 500) id 12F21E3E86; Sun, 9 May 2010 12:30:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 12:30:24 -0400 From: Michael George To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] bypassing CUPS - howto Message-ID: <20100509163024.GA25185@brego.pewamo.office> References: <20100428141106.6ae2ec5d@karnak.local> <4BD98E05.2060605@gmail.com> <20100509031004.GA19422@brego.pewamo.office> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100509031004.GA19422@brego.pewamo.office> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: 2de23a95-11d5-4016-a2a4-c7a05669090e X-Archives-Hash: b6f7a6c726ac61afd936fff4c25bcaec On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 11:10:04PM -0400, Michael George wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 08:47:49AM -0500, Dale wrote: > > Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > > On 29 Apr, Stroller wrote: > > > > > >> On 28 Apr 2010, at 15:27, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > >> > > >>>> ... > > >>>> Why do you need to bypass CUPS? > > >>>> > > >>> Thanks, it's just for debugging. > > >>> > > >>> Printing some pdf files with acroread makes some printers > > >>> hang here. > > >>> To locate the problem source, I'd like to check if the printer > > >>> works if it gets the postscript or pdf-file (there printer is assumed > > >>> to accept postscript level 3). > > >>> > > >> Have you tried using `lpr` at the command line? > > >> > > >> I *believe* something like `lpr /path/to/file.pdf` should work. > > >> > > >> > > > Thanks, but lpr is just a front-end for cups. > > > > > > > > > > I tried that here and got a error. It may be a bad setting on my end > > but it didn't like the idea. > > > > root@smoker ~ # lpr /data/pdf/LivingWill.pdf > > lpr: Unsupported format 'application/pdf'! > > root@smoker ~ # > > I started noticing this today too. My Macs aren't able to successfully > print, I just get an error in the error log about application/pdf being > an unsupported format. > > If I take a PDF generated on the Mac and move it to my Linux system and > run "lpr .pdf" I get: > lpr: Unsupported format 'application/pdf'! > > If I use "pdftops" to generate a PS file, "lpr .ps" works > fine. If I open the PDF in xpdf and print, telling it to use the > command "lpr," that also works fine. > > I upgraded from cups 1.3.10 to 1.3.11 today (cannot go back). I've > rebuilt all the foomatic packages I had installed, gutenprint, cups-pdf, > ghostscript-gpl, but still it doesn't work... I'm not sure that you are having the same problem I am, but I found the solution here to work for me: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=309901 -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.