[cups.general] renderer command

[angel bosch]

nice work

El dt 30 de 11 del 2004 a les 17:20 +0100, en/na Till Kamppeter va
escriure:
> 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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