[cups] OS X dialog to add a printer

[Jacob Marble]

Well, it turns out that the driver was returning an at-sign @ in the
ppd-name field, and system-config-printer did not like that. Is there a log
where I can check for these kinds of errors?

Thanks


Jacob


On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Jacob Marble <jacobmarble at google.com>
wrote:

> CUPS Cloud Print <http://www.niftiestsoftware.com/cups-cloud-print/> (CCP)
> is a backend to Google Cloud Print printers. It could work better in OS X,
> so that's what I'm doing today.
>
> When the user tries to add a printer using the standard OS X (10.9) dialog
> ("default" tab), CCP properly provides a list of printers to cups-deviced,
> as proven in the OS X dialog.
>
> However, when the user selects a printer, invoking [cups-driverd list
> ...], CCP returns something wrong such that the "Name" and "Location"
> fields are properly pre-filled, but the "Use" field (backend/driver/PPD)
> falls back on "Generic PostScript Printer" with the message "The selected
> printer software isn't from the manufacturer blah blah blah."
>
> The PPD is generated dynamically with [cups-driverd cat
> cupscloudprint:blah]. Calling this by hand works.
>
> 1) Is this the right place to work on OS X GUI-specific issues?
> 2) What does the OS X dialog look for that could be missing? More
> IEEE-1284 info?
> 3) Is this documented publicly somewhere? I tried the CUPS documentation
> and Apple's OS X documentation.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jacob Marble
> Google Los Angeles
>