[cups.general] renderer command

[Anonymous]

Still can't print. I did as you said, and I got the same error as when I used Debian's gimpprint driver without foomatic. I elaborated more on:
http://cups.org/newsgroups.php?s2655+gcups.general+Gcups+v2657

I really appreciate your help so far.

Till Kamppeter wrote:
> You can use Foomatic, but then you must use the Foomatic data which the
> Gimp-Print package generates. The "./configure" should auto-detect
> whether on your system is Foomatic installed and if so, it adds the
> necessary data to your local Foomatic database so that the KDE Printing
> Manager offers the appropriate "Foomatic + Gimp-Print" entries. The
> solution of CUPS PPDs needs one piece of software less, it does not need
> Foomatic, so it also works if Foomatic is not installed on your box. It
> needs only CUPS and ESP GhostScript (or another GhostScript which is
> patched to have the "cups" device).
>
>     Till
>
>
> Anonymous wrote:
> > Thanks! will do that.
> > Final (hopefuly) question:
> > It is understood from your instructions that I should not use Foomatic. Is this correct?
> >
> > Till Kamppeter wrote:
> >
> >>Get the newest Gimp-Print sources, install the cups-devel,
> >>libcups-devel, or cupsys-dev package (name depends on your distro),
> >>compile with
> >>
> >>../configure --with-cups
> >>make
> >>make install
> >>
> >>do
> >>
> >>killall -HUP cupsd
> >>
> >>and try to set up your printer again. Use model/driver selections marked
> >>with "CUPS + Gimp-Print".
> >>
> >>Report a bug to your distro, as it does not provide working PPDs or
> >>Foomatic data for Gimp-Print.
> >>
> >>    Till
> >>
> >>
> >>Anonymous wrote:
> >>
> >>>Thanks for all your help so far. What does it mean in my case?
> >>>what should be my next steps to get the printer to work?
> >>>
> >>>Till Kamppeter wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>I have done some slight modifications on Foomatic now (in the Foomatic
> >>>>CVS on linuxprinting.org, both stable and unstable branches), that PPD
> >>>>files with blank *FoomaticRIPCommandLine cannot be generated any more.
> >>>>In this case now an error is issued and so frontends like the KDE
> >>>>Printing Manager should give an error message instead of creating a
> >>>>broken print queue.
> >>>>
> >>>>The blank *FoomaticRIPCommandLine was caused by a driver entry in the
> >>>>Foomatic database with an empty renderer command line prototype. This
> >>>>means that the driver entry has no driver execution information. In most
> >>>>cases the driver has several different GhostScript device names and the
> >>>>execution information resides in the Foomatic entry with another name.
> >>>>In the case of Gimp-Print there is no execution info as the execution
> >>>>ifo is supplied with the driver package. See the text of the driver
> >>>>entry in such cases (AFAIR the KDE Printing Manager has a button to
> >>>>display it).
> >>>>
> >>>>   Till
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Helge Blischke wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Anonymous wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>I believe this was generated by the kde control center when
> >>>>>>configuring my printer. I have both the
> >>>>>>Gimp-Print package installed and the foomatic one.
> >>>>>>I'd try installing the printer straight from CUPS, but for some odd
> >>>>>>reason I can't seem to connect to
> >>>>>>localhost:631, although kcontrol does seem to connect there.
> >>>>>>[...]
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>There is a severe bug in your PPD. The line
> >>>>>*FoomaticRIPCommandLine: ""
> >>>>>defines an empty command to be executed by foomatic-rip, which is
> >>>>>illegal. Instead, if your printer is a native PostScript printer,
> >>>>>this keyword should *not* be present - foomatic-rip then uses the
> >>>>>cat command to pass on the print stream.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>As it is, foomatic-rip tries to execute an empty command which fails,
> >>>>>of course (and leads to a shell syntax error when using the
> >>>>>debug switch).
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Get a correct PPD.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Helge
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
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