[cups.general] Unsupported format 'application/postscript'

[Michael R Sweet]

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

CUPS 1.4 is not yet stable!  The 1.4.x developer snapshots are
provided for users and developers that need to test or develop against
the "bleeding edge" version of CUPS.  It is not meant for production
use!

> 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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>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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>>
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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer