[cups.general] ghostscript device=cups seems missing from newer versions

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Thu Oct 21 02:06:48 PDT 2010


Burke Sean wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> our 1.4.4 install running on Solaris10 was using ESP Ghostscript 7.07 but
> we were running into performance issues so we moved to ESP Ghostscript
> 815.04 but it no-longer appears to have device=cups support and neither
> does GPL Ghostscript  9.00 so our prints fail with unknown device:cups
> 
> Does anyone know if there is an extra step or option to get the newer gs
> release to function properly?
> 
> cheers
> 
> Sean

How did you install the newer Ghostscript?
If you compile from the sources, make sure the configure script recognizes
the CUPS installation, as the cups device needs libcupsimage and libcups.

Helge





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