pstoraster: Unable to convert file

Anonymous anonymous at easysw.com
Thu Nov 24 02:40:34 PST 2005


> to summarize my problem.  I am writing
> a driver and ppd file for my printer.
> I was using the pstoraster filter, it
> was working fine.  I made a change in my
> ppd file and now pstoraster won't work
> any more that is, nothing gets printed.
>
> I have this line in my ppd file:
>
> *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-pstoraster 10 mydriver"
>
> looking in /var/log/cups/error_log:
>
> print_job: auto-typing file...
> print_job: request file type is image/x-bitmap.
> ....
> Unable to convert file 0 to printable format for job 199!
> Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript installed?
> CancelJob: id = 199
>
> Can someone tell me where and what is 'print_job'?
> And why does print_job not think I have ESP gs
> installed?  Especially when I do have it installed:
> >  /usr/bin/gs --help
> ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1 (2003-07-12)
>
> It almost seems like there is another ghostscript installed
> on my system and the wrong one is getting invoked.
>
> obviously, changing the ppd file couldn't be the problem.
> I update my Gentoo system every couple of weeks so maybe
> something that affects cups got changed.
>
> by the way if I invoke
> /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster my.bmp
> it does produce a postscript file.
>
>
>





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