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

[Helge Blischke]

Well, uninstalling the old version surely deleted the files that were
in the common subset of both versions.

Thus, uninstall tne new version and reinstall it completely.

Helge



ekkard gerlach wrote:
> 
> 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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