[cups] Trying to work around Canon MF743cdw driver bugs on MacOS Catalina
Helge Blischke
helgeblischke at web.de
Fri May 29 04:22:31 PDT 2020
> Am 29.05.2020 um 08:09 schrieb Brian Demsky <bdemsky at gmail.com>:
>
> Doesn’t work on MacOS. The filter runs from the command line fine. I have gs installed in /opt/local/bin/gs. But it doesn’t work. I’m wondering if this is some sort of OS X security sandbox thing?
>
> I get the following error in the printer log:
> D [28/May/2020:23:05:33 -0700] [Job 167] printer-state=3(idle)
> D [28/May/2020:23:05:33 -0700] [Job 167] printer-state-message="/opt/local/bin/gs -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sstdout=%stderr -sOutputFile=%stdout -dAutoRotatePages=/None -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dNOPLATFONTS -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -dColorConversionStrategy=/LeaveColorUnchanged -f /private/var/spool/cups/d00167-001 -c quit: Operation not permitted"
> D [28/May/2020:23:05:33 -0700] [Job 167] printer-state-reasons=none
> D [28/May/2020:23:05:33 -0700] [Client 18] HTTP_STATE_WAITING Closing for error 32 (Broken pipe)
>
> I’m okay printing on my side by just hacking the PPD to use the printer’s native PDF support.
>
> Brian
>
Additional hint:
maybe you need to switch the sandboxing oc CUPS from strict too relaxed.
Currently, there is no utility to do this; you need to stop cups,
sudo edit /etc/cups/cups-files.conf and add the line
Sandboxing relaxed
to the end of the file
nd restart cups.
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