OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Setup & Installation
Cups won't print PDFs
Paul Smedley:
IIRC - at some point I released an updated \cups\bin\pdftops.exe - will confirm more details tonight....
Alex Taylor:
According to the notes I have, the updated file is dated 2013-5-18 - originally from http://smedley.id.au/tmp/pdftops.zip although that link is long since defunct.
guzzi:
The link was still valid. Replaced pdftops.exe. still the same result:
D [18/Feb/2014:17:48:04 -0100] [Job 9] Error: /invalidfont in /findfont
D [18/Feb/2014:17:48:04 -0100] [Job 9] Operand stack:
D [18/Feb/2014:17:48:04 -0100] [Job 9] F70_0 1 1 --nostringval-- Helvetica-Oblique
D [18/Feb/2014:17:48:04 -0100] [Job 9] Execution stack:
D [18/Feb/2014:17:48:04 -0100] [Job 9] %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1846 1 3 %oparray_pop 1845 1 3 %oparray_pop 1829 1 3 %oparray_pop 1723 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 1804 5 4 %oparray_pop
D [18/Feb/2014:17:48:04 -0100] [Job 9] Dictionary stack:
D [18/Feb/2014:17:48:04 -0100] [Job 9] --dict:1157/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:77/200(L)-- --dict:73/75(L)--
D [18/Feb/2014:17:48:04 -0100] [Job 9] Current allocation mode is local
D [18/Feb/2014:17:48:04 -0100] [Job 9] Last OS error: No such file or directory
D [18/Feb/2014:17:48:04 -0100] [Job 9] GPL Ghostscript 8.71: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
guzzi:
I installed GS 9.10. That solved the problem printing PDF's. Some issues remain
I have 'tray' set as paper source. All applications use tray, except Qpdfview, which will use the rear feed regardless of settings. That might be a bug in Qpdfview.
Qpdfview and Lucice print in colour, all other apps in grayscale. I have tried several settings for colour and ink (yes, I adjust them in both the cups web interface and the cups PM driver), to no avail. I don't know the inner workings of it all, but I suspect that printing PDFs from Lucide and Qpdfview bypass some of the cups PM functionality becauae of the postscript nature. That would mean the ppd I imported is not right.
I have 2 PPD files...one in ecs\install\prndrv\ppd_e and one in ecs\install\prndrv\ppd. The latter is about twice the size and 3 minutes older.
Should they both be there and be different in size? A quick comparison tells me one looks truncated.
Next step will be deling printers and ppd's and reinstalling both.
David McKenna:
Check the contents of the 2 files and see if either ends with a line something like this:
*% End of hp-deskjet_990c.ppd, 22550 bytes.
If not, the file is probably truncated. I seem to remember an issue with an earlier version of CUPS that would truncate ppd's, but it is a little hazy now...
Do you have a ppd file in \cups\etc\cups\ppd? That is the one CUPS uses. Check its contents to see if it might be truncated too.... If it is, and one of the other ones you mention is not, try copying the 'good' (not truncated) one into \cups\etc\cups\ppd (save the old ones!).
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