[cups.general] PDFs do not Print

[George Liu]

> But I do not understand why I get gibberish when
> printing pdf's from K-apps.  
Send a print job, without -o raw option. Check /var/log/cups/error_log.
It'll list the filter it deploys.




> -----Original Message-----
> From: cups-bounces at easysw.com [mailto:cups-bounces at easysw.com] On
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> Of adfas asd
> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 11:33 AM
> To: cups at easysw.com
> Subject: Re: [cups.general] PDFs do not Print
> 
> OK, now I see about -raw.  Thanks Ambrose.
> 
> But I do not understand why I get gibberish when
> printing pdf's from K-apps.  KPDF or KDE is supposed
> to filter them, pdf to postscript, if I understand
> correctly.  But this is apparently not happening with
> the Gestetner DSc38u when I use Ricoh's 'perfect'
> postscript driver.  It does work when I print the same
> file to my postscript Laserjet4, from the same laptop.
> 
> Maybe the DSc38u postscript driver is supposed to
> route the pdf datastream through pdftops, although
> it's apparently not.  I do have pdftops (ver.3), and
> when I use it to manually convert my very-same pdf to
> ps I can then kghostview the resulting postscript file
> and print it to the DSc38u successfully.
> 
> Don't tell me the only thing the PPD drivers have to
> do is send printer settings and route the datastream
> through pdftops?  And this driver even messes that
> simple job up?
> 
> The thing that's really queer is that when I install
> the Gestetner 422 PCL-XL driver and try to print, once
> again it prints postscript OK but messes up pdf.  Even
> the PCL driver messes up in this case.
> 
> I have tried to understand Cups before, but either the
> explanations were terrible, or its workings are too
> Byzantine for mere mortals to comprehend.
> 
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