Unsupported format 'application/postscript'

shermin sherminismail at gmail.com
Mon Aug 11 05:12:31 PDT 2008


Hi,
i installed cups 1.4.Whether that could be the reason>???

shermin
> On Monday 11 August 2008, shermin wrote:
> >Hi,
> >Also mime.convs and mime.types are not installed in /etc/cups.It is in
> > /usr/share/cups/mime folder.Why so ??? I reinstalled cups but that doesnt
> > matters.ALso i tried in Ubunto and Fedora 8 but no use.
> >
> Humm, mime.types is several places here, but not in /usr/share/cups:
> [root at coyote ~]# locate mime.types
> /etc/mime.types
> /etc/cups/mime.types
> /etc/htdig/mime.types
> /root/.mime.types
> /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.21/mime.types
> /usr/share/doc/cups-1.3.7/help/man-mime.types.html
> /usr/share/man/man5/mime.types.5.gz
>
> And:
> [root at coyote ~]# locate mime.convs
> /etc/cups/mime.convs
> /usr/share/doc/cups-1.3.7/help/man-mime.convs.html
> /usr/share/man/man5/mime.convs.5.gz
>
> Fedora 8 system here.  Something is surely miss-installed there.
>
> I also apparently don't know enough about yum or rpm to make them spit out
> the --whatprovides mime.types
>
> Perhaps someone else can chime in here?
>
> >shermin
> >
> >> On Monday 11 August 2008, shermin wrote:
> >> >Hi,
> >> >Can any one help me on this issue plz
> >> >shermin
> >> >
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >> My error log says
> >> >>
> >> >> D [10/Aug/2008:14:51:12 +0400] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data
> >> >> provided. D [10/Aug/2008:14:51:12 +0400] Print-Job
> >> >> ipp://localhost:631/printers/Card_-330 D [10/Aug/2008:14:51:12 +0400]
> >> >> Print-Job client-error-document-format-not-supported: Unsupported
> >> >> format 'application/postscript'! D [10/Aug/2008:14:51:12 +0400]
> >> >> cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 47 status_code=40a
> >> >> (client-error-document-format-not-supported) D [10/Aug/2008:14:51:12
> >> >> +0400] [CGI] lang="en_US.UTF8", locale="/en_US"... D
> >> >> [10/Aug/2008:14:51:12 +0400] PID 15178
> >> >> (/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi) exited with no errors.
> >> >>
> >> >> Shermin
> >> >>
> >> >> > Hi,
> >> >> > I have created my custom usb backend for my card printer.After adding
> >> >> > the printer using CUPS web page,I gave "Print test page".Then I am
> >> >> > getting this error "Unsupported format 'application/postscript'" What
> >> >> > could be the reason>???
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Shermin
> >>
> >> This is not a real busy list. The normal question (but might not be the
> >> right one) here would be:  Do you have ghostscript installed?
> >>
> >> --
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>
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> Cheers, Gene
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