[cups.general] page-ranges and page-set not working

Matthias Czapla dermatsch at gmx.de
Wed Jun 30 06:42:14 PDT 2004


On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:04:33AM -0400, Michael Sweet wrote:
> Matthias Czapla wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >I'm running the Debian Woody packaged CUPS 1.1.14. I have a Kyocera
> >Mita FS-1010 printer configured which works perfectly otherwise, but
> >the options page-ranges and page-set seem to have no effect
> >whatsoever. Each and every single page of the document gets printed.
> >In contrast number-up does work, so it's not a general problem with
> >my system. I need a hint as to where to start looking for the cause.
> >Does the printer need to have specific support for these options or is
> >the document modified by CUPS internally to remove the pages that are
> >not wanted?
> 
> CUPS removes the pages, unless you are printing a file that does not
> conform to the Adobe Document Structuring Conventions.

Mmmh, so I guess it's probably a problem with the file. It's quite old.
To be specific it's the Troff Users Manual from 1992 available here
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/54.ps.gz

Freshly groff'ed files work ok. Should have tried that earlier. Thanks
for the help, Michael!

Regards
Matthias





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