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From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] bypassing CUPS - howto
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:37:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AEE2D0F1-73B4-43F2-8C33-4BBC9434AB57@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tkrat.e08673061fa2f207@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>


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.

Stroller.




  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-29  8:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <eEdjs-3zv-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
2010-04-28 13:11 ` [gentoo-user] bypassing CUPS - howto David W Noon
2010-04-28 14:27   ` Helmut Jarausch
2010-04-29  8:37     ` Stroller [this message]
2010-04-29  9:13       ` Helmut Jarausch
2010-04-29 13:47         ` Dale
2010-05-09  3:10           ` Michael George
2010-05-09 16:30             ` Michael George
2010-04-30  9:43         ` Stroller
     [not found] <eEg7E-7KC-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <eEg7E-7KC-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <eEh3I-Hw-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <eExUR-e9-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <eEyQV-1BT-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]         ` <eECBb-7il-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]           ` <eI602-3d7-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2010-05-09 17:18             ` David W Noon
2010-04-28 10:07 Helmut Jarausch

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