[cups.general] PDFs do not Print

[adfas asd]

So you're saying that whether I print a pdf from the
command-line, or from KPDF to the DSc38u, it will fail
because there is no pdf to ps translator in between?

This doesn't make sense, as I can print pdf's to my ps
Laserjet4 from KPDF just fine.  And I can print to the
office Gestetner 622 by pcl just fine, so there surely
must be a pdf to pcl translation in there?  Why not
pdf to ps translation for the 38?



--- Ambrose Li <ambrose.li at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09/03/07, adfas asd <chimera_god at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Gibberish when I print using the command-line that
> you
> > gave, and when printing from KPDF.  Same result
> either
> > way.
> 
> When you use raw printing, then there is NO filter
> between you
> and the printer, and so you cannot just print like
> that from the
> command line. Normaly, for a Postscript printer you
> will get
> either no output or a page of errors, not gibberish;
> you are
> getting gibberish because the printer accepts PCL so
> it thought
> that you gave it PCL.
> 
> Basically you have to do it the old way and print
> from an
> application (Acrobat Reader for example), or use a
> command-
> line tool to pre-convert what you want to print to
> PostScript. It
> is probably easiest to just run Acrobat Reader and
> print your
> PDF's from there; just make sure the "Print command"
> is set
> to "lp -d Gestetner -o raw".
> 
> For kdeprint, you might also want to try going to
> KControl and
> make sure everything is correct there, since you are
> basically
> using your CUPS as a traditional Unix lpd with no
> automatic
> filters. But I don't really use KDE myself so I
> don't know what
> has to be done to make kdeprint more automatic;
> maybe
> someone else on the list can help you with kdeprint.
> 
> If you can get this to work and no one else prints
> PCL to that
> printer, it'd be best to disable PCL printing on the
> printer if you
> can.
> -- 
> cheers,
> -ambrose
> 
> PS: Don't trust everything you read in Wikipedia.
> (Very Important)
> 
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