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 1O7U7B-0005DB-VD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:49:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D394E081B; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:48:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B4C6E081B for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:48:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws17 with SMTP id 17so2200916vws.40 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:47:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=+elQhgbTEPQPJS219u7ySIilHLPzU0S6f3Z/LuWfsJ8=; b=eBQoMzQ44a6CJUuaQXh/ZS1zgeYoMqbRuqcKU4wsp/19XaNI58v193Zo/rNYP6jbWx xDxO2Vp/Gybq2Flj4SNO9gs8C5u3sTeeTZOesenlVthdsWZe8UJtN8IfPeIpKj3qd0F7 zf9SEp1CRcQS06lEcWP0irY6g9QpFUs/ekkXI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=BNYXkz12+1J4xVij5JiYFRSI8twVaH1Gfj5vId7X5BuJGkDSzqz5ObXy+mJ6wX0mft ugcu6Wy4qB20KvJ/ytS8cEDgJ2e6rF08619jS9znv7aQDq5AfB1xM4yu2Xjiyz6OncAb 4XUspasejy7lKx1leLD/fC72xImfvfpX6Q7Ho= Received: by 10.224.88.139 with SMTP id a11mr213952qam.300.1272548878819; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:47:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-0-94-36.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.94.36]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x34sm512285qce.21.2010.04.29.06.47.50 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:47:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BD98E05.2060605@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:47:49 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100409 Gentoo/2.0.4-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.4 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] bypassing CUPS - howto References: <20100428141106.6ae2ec5d@karnak.local> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4a3a02fb-5e90-4e97-ac09-97b0e0b915e4 X-Archives-Hash: c3f5f75faa18b7cb433d2264aaf3b35f 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 ~ # Dale :-) :-)