Tuesday August 21, 2007 Ubuntu Gutsy Printing Sort Of Working
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At the same time I had my display problems with the latest Ubuntu Gutsy updates, my ability to print stopped too. This is to an HP Laserjet 3050 which I'd just got working via an Airport Express base station last week. |
I noticed that today's Ubuntu updates had new printer related packages so I installed them all, and printing is working again. Sort of. It happily printed out an email from Thunderbird for me, but when I went to print out a PDF file (such as the one you can download from here), with two pages per physical page, nothing comes out. If I look at the document print status it's set to "Held". If I Release that, it'll say it's processing for a while, then go back to the "Held" state. I ended up just canceling the print job.
That PDF file prints just fine from Adobe Reader 6.0 on my Powerbook (to the same printer through the same Airport Express base unit).
If anybody has any clues on what might be going wrong, or how to debug this further, I'd be very interested to read about them. Maybe evince simply can't handle it.
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i did a "ln -s ../xpdf/xpdfrc pdftops.conf" in /etc/cups, which did the trick for me. In my cups error log there were entries that said that pdftops was not working.
An other thing that is probably related is, that i had to use the pdftops from the xpdf-utils and to remove the poppler-utils that hold the same utils (poppler is the base for evince and the likes)
regards ;-)
Posted by Jürgen Mangler on August 21, 2007 at 12:28 PM PDT #
I have the same pdf problem under feisty with a laserjet 1350. Hadn't have the time and need to look into any further, but it seems to be an older bug and not just gutsy related.
Posted by aerials on August 21, 2007 at 01:02 PM PDT #
Jürgen, xpdf is a completely different beastie then evince isn't it?
aerials, good to know. I think I need to do some googling around to see if others have found something similar.
Thanks.
Posted by Rich Burridge on August 21, 2007 at 01:45 PM PDT #
Not sure if it's related but in this A.M.s updates a package called cups-pdf became unhappy.
[...]
dpkg: error processing cups-pdf (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
[...]
Maybe tomorrow's updates will fix things.
Posted by joanie on August 21, 2007 at 05:48 PM PDT #