[cups] OS X dialog to add a printer

[Jacob Marble]

Excuse me, that last message was intended for another list.

Here is a screenshot to demonstrate what happens when printer
"castlevania-color" is selected. The Name and Location fields are properly
populated, but not the driver field.

I resolved a very similar problem with the Red Hat system-config-printer
tool <http://cyberelk.net/tim/software/system-config-printer/> by removing
an at-sign from the driver's ppd-name.

Again, if this is not the right list, please advise.


Jacob


On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Jacob Marble <jacobmarble at google.com>
wrote:

> 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
>>
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