[gentoo-user] cups and ghostprint ESP

[gentoo-user] cups and ghostprint ESP

[Harry Putnam]

Having trouble getting cups to work with a smb installed printer.

It connects ok apparently but has trouble finding ghostscrip ESP.

Googling this group on `cups ESP'  I find a few mentions but mostly
about needing to install it.

I have it installed as indicated by esearch:
*  app-text/ghostscript-esp
      Latest version available: 7.07.1-r10
      Latest version installed: 7.07.1-r10
[...]

The error output with cups set to log debug indicates it cannot
find the ESP ghostscript files:

[...]
I [21/Feb/2006:17:45:52 -0600] Full reload complete.
I [21/Feb/2006:17:46:11 -0600] Adding start banner page "none" to job 22.
I [21/Feb/2006:17:46:11 -0600] Adding end banner page "none" to job 22.
I [21/Feb/2006:17:46:11 -0600] Job 22 queued on 'harvey-hp7130-usb' by 'root'.
E [21/Feb/2006:17:46:11 -0600] Unable to convert file 0 to printable format for job 22!
I [21/Feb/2006:17:46:11 -0600] Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript installed?
I [21/Feb/2006:17:46:11 -0600] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug".
[...]

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Re: [gentoo-user] cups and ghostprint ESP

[Manuel A. McLure]

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 05:45 pm, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Having trouble getting cups to work with a smb installed printer.
>
> It connects ok apparently but has trouble finding ghostscrip ESP.
>
> Googling this group on `cups ESP'  I find a few mentions but mostly
> about needing to install it.
>
> I have it installed as indicated by esearch:
> *  app-text/ghostscript-esp
>       Latest version available: 7.07.1-r10
>       Latest version installed: 7.07.1-r10
> [...]
>
> The error output with cups set to log debug indicates it cannot
> find the ESP ghostscript files:
>
> [...]
> I [21/Feb/2006:17:45:52 -0600] Full reload complete.
> I [21/Feb/2006:17:46:11 -0600] Adding start banner page "none" to job 22.
> I [21/Feb/2006:17:46:11 -0600] Adding end banner page "none" to job 22.
> I [21/Feb/2006:17:46:11 -0600] Job 22 queued on 'harvey-hp7130-usb' by
> 'root'. E [21/Feb/2006:17:46:11 -0600] Unable to convert file 0 to
> printable format for job 22! I [21/Feb/2006:17:46:11 -0600] Hint: Do you
> have ESP Ghostscript installed? I [21/Feb/2006:17:46:11 -0600] Hint: Try
> setting the LogLevel to "debug". [...]

Do you have foomatic-filters installed? It includes wrapper scripts around 
ghostscript that do the work.

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[gentoo-user] Re: cups and ghostprint ESP

[Harry Putnam]

"Manuel A. McLure" <manuel@mclure.org> writes:

> Do you have foomatic-filters installed? It includes wrapper scripts around 
> ghostscript that do the work.

No, I didn't have but I installed it after seeing your message.
Restarted cups and see no improvement.  The logs still say the bit
bout ESP ghostscript.

D [22/Feb/2006:00:10:23 -0600] Job 27 hold_until = 0
D [22/Feb/2006:00:10:23 -0600] StartJob(27, 0x8088d30)
D [22/Feb/2006:00:10:23 -0600] StartJob() id = 27, file = 0/1
E [22/Feb/2006:00:10:23 -0600] Unable to convert file 0 to printable format for job 27!
I [22/Feb/2006:00:10:23 -0600] Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript installed?
D [22/Feb/2006:00:10:23 -0600] CancelJob: id = 27

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cups and ghostprint ESP

[Manuel McLure]

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 22:12, Harry Putnam wrote:
> No, I didn't have but I installed it after seeing your message.
> Restarted cups and see no improvement.  The logs still say the bit
> bout ESP ghostscript.
>
> D [22/Feb/2006:00:10:23 -0600] Job 27 hold_until = 0
> D [22/Feb/2006:00:10:23 -0600] StartJob(27, 0x8088d30)
> D [22/Feb/2006:00:10:23 -0600] StartJob() id = 27, file = 0/1
> E [22/Feb/2006:00:10:23 -0600] Unable to convert file 0 to printable format
> for job 27! I [22/Feb/2006:00:10:23 -0600] Hint: Do you have ESP
> Ghostscript installed? D [22/Feb/2006:00:10:23 -0600] CancelJob: id = 27

What type of file are you trying to print? I wonder if there's no defined 
filter chain for that mime type... the error message may be misleading.

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[gentoo-user] Re: cups and ghostprint ESP

[Harry Putnam]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

>> Do you have foomatic-filters installed? It includes wrapper scripts around 
>> ghostscript that do the work.
>
> No, I didn't have but I installed it after seeing your message.
> Restarted cups and see no improvement.  The logs still say the bit
> bout ESP ghostscript.

update...
I've gone thru and installed the basic foomatic which was not
installed ..(it seems foomatic-wrappers should requre that?)

Then reinstalled cups and finally reinstalled ghostscript.

It all works now with no change in cups config.
Thanks for getting me started

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