[cups] Sending mail from a CentOS7 virtual machine to Fuji Xerox ApeosPort-IV C4475 problem revisted

[Gernot Hassenpflug]

On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 5:18 PM Zdenek Dohnal <zdohnal at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Ian,
>
> I'm sorry, but now IMHO I'm not able to help you further - I'm not able
> to find where fxauth filter sources are (there isn't such filter created
> by sources at https://github.com/rogers0/fxlinuxprint , it seems at
> least). Maybe Gernot would be able to help further, since he has
> experience with the fxlinuxprint sw.
>


The fxauth filter is simply a script to add some PJL lines to the printjob,
nothing else.
So if the printjob works when adding the required lines by hand, then it
will work when the fxauth filter adds them automatically.
At this stage there is no indication that the original files the user wants
to print actually are correct.

The origina idea was to take a know file that works, for example from
Windows, remove the lines that the filter should add,
and run it through the filter and then pass the result raw to the printer.
That would show that the filter works. As far as I have seen, this has not
been achieved yet, but is feasible I expect.
Any other problems would have to be investigated in the preceding filters.

But my simple guess would be to investigate what actually is in these
> files created by filtering, but they seems to be a special format (these
> created by fxlinuxprint filters), so I think usual means (opening in gs
> or pdf viewer) will not work.
>

Best regards,
Gernot

>
> On 11/7/18 5:28 AM, マスターズ・イアン wrote:
> > Hi Zdenek
> >
> >> sorry for no update, I was on vacation. More info below.
> >
> > No problem! Everyone needs a holiday.
> >
> >> Ian, would you mind checking if you have default printer set? You can
> >> check it by '$ lpstat -d'. If it isn't set or it isn't set to printer
> >> you want to use, you can change the settings in CUPS web ui on
> >> localhost:631 (if cups service is running), in 'Printers' tab.
> >
> > Default printer wasn't set so I did:
> > lpoptions -d 11F1
> > Now lpstat -d shows:
> > システムのデフォルトの宛先: 11F1 (System default destination: 11F1)
> > and also set it in the GUI for good measure.
> >
> > After setting the default, the following command no longer segfaults:
> > /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopjlfx 1 username '' 1 ''
> > </home/user1/pdftopdffx.pdf >pdftopdffx.pjlfx
> >
> > It produced this file:
> > ..-rw-rw-r--  1 user1 user1  16K 11月  7 10:19 pdftopdffx.pjlfx
> >
> > Then I did:
> > /usr/lib/cups/filter/fxauth 1 username '' 1 ''
> > </home/user1/pdftopdffx.pjlfx >pdftopdffx.fxauth
> >
> > I got a permissions error so I sudo-ed the command. That produced this
> > error:
> > /usr/lib/cups/filter/fxauth: 行 13: /etc/cups/ppd/.fx:
> > そのようなファイルやディレクトリはありません (no such file or directory)
> >
> > So I tried to set the ${PRINTER}.fx in the fxauth file but failed, so
> > I hard-coded it in. That stopped the error and the PJL information was
> > added to the file.
> >
> > Then I sent the file raw to the printer:
> >
> > lpr -P 11F1 -o raw /home/user1/pdftopdffx.fxauth
> > The file was sent OK (it arrived at the printer), but the printer menu
> > showed the page as being 0 pages ...
> >
> > That's where I am right now.
> >
> > ian
>
> --
> Zdenek Dohnal
> Associate Software Engineer
> Red Hat Czech - Brno TPB-C
>
>
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