paper size selection

[chris epicier]

Hi again

Still unresolved. Fidlled around with the ppds and thngs only got worse. No one a clue?

Could it be its W2k?
However I can definitely use all paper sizes with the cups driver when printing to a file.

I'd appreciate any help

Chrsi

> Hi there
>
> The problem described in this thread matches exactly what we see here
>
> - Suse 10.2, samba 3.0.23. cups 1.2.7
> - can see page sizes on http://localhost:631
> - ppd file is djet650.ppd
> - cannot select large page sizes on w2k / wxp box like A1 A0 ...
> - all printing (apart large formats) else works just fine
>
> > But, then, I removed all the decimal parts of the 'priority' code in
> > all lines begining with the PPD keywords '*OrderDependency:' and
> > 'NonUIOrderDependency:' like this :
> >
> > *OrderDependency: 40.0 AnySetup *PageSize>
> >
> > replaced by
> >
> > *OrderDependency: 40 Anysetup *PageSize
> >
> > I don't know why but it worked: I can see all the paper sizes now in
> > the Windows printing interface.
>
> I checked the ppd file for entries like described above but, ie: a
> # cat djet650.ppd | grep "\.0" | grep *OrderDependency
>
> returns nothing
>
> > OK... I'm not sure exactly why the following worked. I upgraded my
> > Linux/Samaba/Cups server to Samba 3.0.4 from 3.0.2 and it made no
> > difference. I upgrade CUPS to 1.20 from 1.19, reverted back to a Win2K
> > workstation to upload the drivers via the "Printers" share on the
> > Linux/Samba box instead of cupsaddsmb and the problem goes away.
>
> didn't help either
>
> Any clues