[cups.general] Problems printing PDF files through cups.

[Gerald Britton]

OK -- I'll need a bit of help.  I tried:

$CUPS_SERVERROOT='/etc/cups/' /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops.new my.pdf

(pdftops.new is the alternate pdftops that you recommended) and got the message:


ERROR: wrong number of arguments

How should I properly call pdftops and pstops?

On 9/27/07, Helge Blischke <h.blischke at srz.de> wrote:
> H.Blischke at srz-berlin.com
> H.Blischke at acm.orgGerald Britton wrote:
> > Yes, the printer has a web interface, but there's nothing there that I
> > can see to change what I get in this case.
> >
> > I'm actually looking for a non-printer-specific solution, since I also
> > print similar documents at home on a low-end printer.
> >
> > I had hoped that I could produce similar results (albeit more slowly
> > and with reduced quality) on a $200 printer as a $10000 printer.  I am
> > looking for a level of abstraction in cups to do that sort of thing.
> >
> > What is particularly galling, is that producing the results I am
> > looking for -- printing a pdf scaled to fit the page size on any given
> > printer in landscape orientation -- is a point-and-shoot operation on
> > windows but, thusfar, unachievable with cups (at least the version I'm
> > running)
> >
> > Soon I'll be able to try cups 1.3.2.  Maybe then....
> >
> > On 9/27/07, Helge Blischke <h.blischke at srz.de> wrote:
> >
>
> As a last try, could you run the pdftops filter and the pstops filter
> "by hand" from the command line and post the respective output?
>
> I'd badly like to know what the reason is that it does not work
> at your site.
>
> Helge
>
> --
> Helge Blischke
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>
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