CUPS problme on Ubuntu lucid

[richardmalter]

> richardmalter wrote:
>
> > It seems that after a recent ubuntu normal weekly set of updates (1 week
> > or so ago) I cannot print from Scribus or any PDF file. I get errors like
> > 'cant read xref table' etc. The Scribus folks checked the PDF generated by
> > Scribus and it worked fine on another machine, so it is my system (CUPS).
> > Even a PDF generated from open office has the same problem. The debugger
> > doesn't seem to help me.
> >
> > Any ideas please? thank you.
> >
> > Richard
>
> It is probably due to Ubuntu's configuration of cups, wich deviates from the
> standard cups in that it tries to establish a pdf centric workflow.
>
> I had similar problems with the Ubuntu based Peppermint One and solved it
> by reactivating the original PostScript centric workflow.
>
> Please post the files under /usr/share/cups/mime (I suppose your system
> already uses cups 1.4.x, otherwise the files *.types and *.convs from
> /etc/cups), so that I could provide you with workarounds.
>
> Helge
>

Helge,

Thank you for the help. Is this what you meant? :-

/usr/share/cups/mime/command.types
/usr/share/cups/mime/cpdftocps.convs
/usr/share/cups/mime/imagetopdf.convs
/usr/share/cups/mime/imagetopdf.types
/usr/share/cups/mime/mime.convs
/usr/share/cups/mime/mime.types
/usr/share/cups/mime/oopstops.convs
/usr/share/cups/mime/oopstops.types
/usr/share/cups/mime/pdf.types
/usr/share/cups/mime/pdftopdf.convs
/usr/share/cups/mime/pdftoraster.convs
/usr/share/cups/mime/pstopdf.convs
/usr/share/cups/mime/pstoraster.convs
/usr/share/cups/mime/pstotiff.convs
/usr/share/cups/mime/pstotiff.types
/usr/share/cups/mime/text.convs
/usr/share/cups/mime/texttopdf.convs