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 1O7Pot-0003oI-7X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:14:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6FC5FE0808; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:13:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38248E0808 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:13:35 +0000 (UTC) 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-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: INLINE Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Received: from ironport-out-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.40]) by mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0L1M000EHSAMAO00@mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:13:34 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.52,294,1270418400"; d="scan'208";a="55374175" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by ironport-in-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:13:34 +0200 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id o3T9DYdW015048 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:13:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 230) id ABBC664E; Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:13:36 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:13:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] bypassing CUPS - howto To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-reply-to: Message-id: References: <20100428141106.6ae2ec5d@karnak.local> X-Archives-Salt: 537fd25f-1d56-409d-b65a-b683639bf5e9 X-Archives-Hash: dfa20287cf64def22fdbddcc1a8795ca 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. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany