Re: Printing not working at all...

[Gregory Casamento]

Hey guys,

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Gregory Casamento <greg.casamento@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey guys,

On Friday, July 15, 2016, Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de> wrote:

Am 15.07.2016 um 18:00 schrieb Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it>:
> So.. no bug in the printing code (it also means I can't reproduce Greg's issue: on this NetBSD computer I can print and on Ubuntu I can print but have just an invalid font name, a minor issue, not a 0 bytes PS file).

The font name issue should be resolved as well. Now we should go back to Greg's original issue. He uses cairo and cups, which is the setup I am using myself. And here the generation of a PS file works, with all the known limitations.

I will be able to test this in a bit.  Unfortunately my mother is in the hospital.  

I will test immediately when I get back. I have another machine with a similar config. 

Fred

Greg 

 

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I just tried this on another machine, it does appear to be configuration related.  I believe Fred was correct about it being the PPD.   The machine I am testing on has no printer selected, so it is using a generic postscript printer PPD.  The machine which is failing is configured to use my Xerox 4500.  

Both machines are of identical config to what I described earlier in this thread with that one difference.   I need to do some research to see if this can be corrected as it should, at least, generate a PS even if it doesn't have the PPD.  I have a feeling we need to use the Generic_Postscript_Printer.ppd as a fallback in case a specific PPD is not available.

Thanks, GC

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Gregory Casamento
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