[cups.general] CUPS 1.3.x: really can't print PCL files in latin iso-8859-1 any longer??

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Mon Mar 9 12:48:11 PDT 2009


This only affects printing of plain text files, not other file formats  
which embed the necessary character set information.

On Mar 9, 2009, at 12:40 PM, ekkard gerlach wrote:

> is that true? CUPS 1.3.x can't print  PCL files  coded in  latin
> iso-8859-1 any longer?  And postscript 1.0 files?
>
> I read from Johannes Meixner in
>     Re: [cups.general] iso-8859-1 char not printing
> that this is a feature of CUPS 1.3.x in this NG. in 02/26/2009
>
> The convertation
> iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 filename.txt | lp -d printer
> has no effects on PCL files an none on postscript 1.0 file.
> The error CUPS is always the same:
> lp: Unsupported character set "iso-8859-1"
>
> No function present to move a file with any content to another CUPS
> host? Really? Only possible with a file:// -queue in printers.conf, a
> scp after and a ssh user at host "cat file >/dev/usb/lp0"?
>
> But Windows works out of the box! Oh I begin to love Windows! Windows
> the operating system for professionals and business, linux the system
> for freaks an home users. I understand! Bye, bye linux-clients!
>
> Ekkard
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