Update gimp-print 4.2.7: Unable to convert file 0 to printable format

ekkard gerlach jack at aiai.de
Thu Sep 16 12:19:40 PDT 2004


I've updated Suse8.2 to gimp-print-4.2.7 (because of support of Epson 
C64/C84)

I get error message when printing on C64 or HPlaser4l
via parallelport:

/var/log/cups/error_log: (debug level)
[...]
Unable to convert file 0 to printable format for job 19!
Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript installed?
[...]

But ESP is installed, according to gs -v.

Printing on a Kyocera600 laser printer works fine,
using parport or IPP. Why is printing to some printers
not working?


Thats what I've done:
=====================

root at rex2:~>rpm -qa | grep gimp
libgimpprint-4.2.5-23
gimp-1.2.3-360
gimp-devel-1.2.3-360
libgimpprint-devel-4.2.5-23

root at rex2:~>rpm -qa | grep cups
cups-libs-1.1.18-56
cups-drivers-stp-1.1.18-34
cups-drivers-1.1.18-34
cups-client-1.1.18-56
cups-1.1.18-56
cups-devel-1.1.18-56


gimp-print-4.2.7-1  downloaded from  http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/
Compiled with:

./configure --with-cups
make
checkinstall
rccups restart

now:
root at rex2:/var/log/cups>rpm -qa | grep gimp
libgimpprint-4.2.5-23
gimp-1.2.3-360
gimp-devel-1.2.3-360
libgimpprint-devel-4.2.5-23
gimp-print-4.2.7-1    <<<<<==== NEW!

After I neede to reboot because a rccups restart started
two cupsd but port 631 was not available.

I deinstalled libgimpprint-4.2.5-23 because I noticed
that the files of libgimpprint-4.2.5-23 were part of
gimp-print-4.2.7-1:
root at rex2:/var/log/cups>rpm -ql libgimpprint-4.2.5-23
/usr/bin/gimpprint-config
/usr/lib/libgimpprint.a
/usr/lib/libgimpprint.la
/usr/lib/libgimpprint.so
/usr/lib/libgimpprint.so.1
/usr/lib/libgimpprint.so.1.1.0
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/gimp-print.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gimp-print.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/gimp-print.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/gimp-print.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gimp-print.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gimp-print.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gimp-print.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/gimp-print.mo
/usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/gimp-print.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gimp-print.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/gimp-print.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/gimp-print.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gimp-print.mo


The list of installed files with gimp-print-4.2.7-1  is
long:
root at rex2:/var/log/cups>rpm -ql gimp-print-4.2.7-1 | more
/etc/cups/command.types
/usr/bin/cups-calibrate
/usr/doc/gimp-print-4.2.7/ABOUT-NLS
/usr/doc/gimp-print-4.2.7/AUTHORS
/usr/doc/gimp-print-4.2.7/COPYING
/usr/doc/gimp-print-4.2.7/ChangeLog
/usr/doc/gimp-print-4.2.7/INSTALL
/usr/doc/gimp-print-4.2.7/NEWS
/usr/doc/gimp-print-4.2.7/README
/usr/lib/cups/backend/canon
/usr/lib/cups/backend/epson
/usr/lib/cups/filter/commandtocanon
/usr/lib/cups/filter/commandtoepson
/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertoprinter
/usr/lib/gimp/1.2/plug-ins/print
/usr/local/bin/escputil
/usr/local/bin/gimpprint-config
/usr/local/bin/ijsgimpprint
/usr/local/include/gimp-print/gimp-print.h
/usr/local/info/dir
/usr/local/info/gimpprint.info
/usr/local/info/gimpprint.info-1
/usr/local/info/gimpprint.info-2
/usr/local/info/gimpprint.info-3
/usr/local/info/gimpprint.info-4
/usr/local/info/gimpprint.info-5
/usr/local/lib/libgimpprint.a
/usr/local/lib/libgimpprint.la
/usr/local/lib/libgimpprint.so
/usr/local/lib/libgimpprint.so.1
/usr/local/lib/libgimpprint.so.1.1.3
/usr/local/man/man1/escputil.1
/usr/local/man/man1/gimpprint-config.1
[...]
/usr/local/man/man7/gimpprint-resolutions.7
/usr/local/man/man8/cups-calibrate.8

/usr/local/share/aclocal/gimpprint.m4
/usr/local/share/gimp-print/doc/gimpprint.ps
/usr/local/share/gimp-print/doc/html/book1.html
[...]
/usr/local/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/gimp-print.mo
/usr/local/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gimp-print.mo
/usr/local/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gimp-print.mo
/usr/share/cups/calibrate.ppm
/usr/share/cups/model/C/bjc-1000.ppd.gz
/usr/share/cups/model/C/bjc-2000.ppd.gz
[...]
    here about 500 lines with printer drivers

some ideas?
tia
Ekkard




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