lost tray selection ability

Jeff jeffroberts at telus.net
Fri Jun 3 18:08:33 PDT 2011


Thanks Paul

I'll see if I can force the CUPS on the working box to upgrade without upgrading Ghostscript. That would give me CUPS 1.4.6 with GS 8.70.

Jeff


> using Ghostscript 9.02 and 1.4.6 on RHEL 5.3, same results.  I didn't bother breaking the laserjet III out, as i had a different laserjet already set up.  same results, always pulled from default tray and not the tray specified by the PPD.  are you able to get 8.70-1 GS and 1.4.6 on the same box to see if GS is the culprit?  in a pinch, you could write a script filter probably to insert the tray commands in the job, but that's really a hack way, somewhere along the line it does appear that something broke.  I'll keep tinkering too and see if I can find the smoking gun as well.
>
> > Added info:
> >
> > I just put CUPS 1.4.6 on a Fedora 14 box and tried the same setup and it's broken here too. No tray selection.
> >
> > Cups 1.4.6 on Fedora 14 using Ghostscript 8.71-16
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > The working unit is using Ghostscript 8.70-1, it's running 1.3.11 on a Fedora 10 box.
> > >
> > > The new server is using 8.71_6 running 1.4.6 on a freebsd 8.2 server.
> > >
> > > I will attempt to do the print to file thing next.
> > >
> > > Jeff
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > > > Paul wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Well, this may take me a little longer to test...
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > with 1.4.6 the mime.types and mime.convs appear to have moved, but when I
> > > > > > > found them, i don't see an issue.  whenever I lp any type of file (text or
> > > > > > > postscript) it says unsupported format.  looking through the PPD and
> > > > > > > mime.convs file, I see a path to get there, but i can't figure out why it
> > > > > > > isn't getting there.  we're mostly a RAW shop but I'll keep playing with
> > > > > > > it and let you know.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > As the final content type requested by the filter specified in the printer's
> > > > > > PPD (rastertohp), there must be a filter pstoraster (or gstoraster)
> > > > > > installed. These filters are part of Ghostscript and get only installed if
> > > > > > Ghostscript has been compiled with the cups device included.
> > > > > > Missing these filters causes the unsupported format message.
> > > > > > (I remember there is a RFE for cupsd to tell missing filters in cases like
> > > > > > this, but this has been postponed to a future release).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Helge
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > At the risk of sounding stupid here (*NOTE* my expertise is more around Printer communications / hardware as well as software / script design, not compiling) I'm not finding any doc on how to compile GhostScript with the cups device included.  I found the chunk of code in the devs.mak file for CUPS, but not seeing how to "turn it on"  can you point me in the right direction at all?  I've googled, looked on cups.org, GhostScripts Site and came up empty.
> > > >
> > > > Nevermind, default configure and make seem to do the trick and make the gstoraster.convs file for me as well
> > >
> >
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