pdftops rendering library is required for cupsys ?

chandrashekar chandu.ise at gmail.com
Fri Dec 16 01:22:59 PST 2011


Hi,

I am able to get text printed on my non-mac machine, but when i try to print pdf or images I am getting below issues. Does cups require pdf and image rendering libraries ?

error: Empty print file is the error which i am hitting.

[05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] [Job 3] Looking up "107.108.210.93"...
I [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] [Job 3] Copying print data...
D [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] Discarding unused job-progress event...
D [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event...
D [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] [Job 3] backendRunLoop(print_fd=-1, device_fd=10, snmp_fd=5, addr=0x14044, use_bc=0, side_cb=0xb4fd)
E [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] [Job 3] Unable to execute pdftops program: No such file or directory
D [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] [Job 3] Set job-printer-state-message to "Unable to execute pdftops program: No such file or directory", current level=ERROR
D [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] Discarding unused job-progress event...
D [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event...
D [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] [Job 3] Started filter pdftops (PID 8820)
D [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] [Job 3] Started filter pstops (PID 8821)
D [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] [Job 3] PID 8820 (pdftops) stopped with status 1!
E [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] [Job 3] Empty print file!
D [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] Discarding unused job-progress event...
D [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event...
D [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] [Job 3] PID 8821 (pstops) stopped with status 1!
D [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] PID 8818 (/system/cups_shared/lib/cups/filter/pdftops) stopped with status 1!
E [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] [Job 3] Empty print file!
D [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] PID 8819 (/system/cups_shared/lib/cups/backend/ipp) stopped with status 1!
I [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] [Job 3] Backend returned status 1 (failed)
D [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] Discarding unused job-state-changed event...
I [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] [Job 3] Printer stopped due to backend errors; please consult the error_log file for details.
D [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] cupsdMarkDirty(----J-)
D [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] Discarding unused printer-stopped event...
D [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] cupsdMarkDirty(P-----)
D [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] cupsdRegisterPrinter(p=0x59ae0(Generic-PostScript))
D [05/Jan/2000:09:17:30 +0530] cupsdMarkDirty(P-----)
I [05/Jan/2000:09:17:41 +0530] Saving printers.conf...
I [05/Jan/2000:09:17:41 +0530] Saving job cache file "/system/cups_shared/var/cache/cups/job.cache"...
D [05/Jan/2000:09:17:41 +0530] cupsdSetBusyState: Not busy




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