On Wednesday 25 February 2015 09:54:04 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 04:46:46 Brian wrote: > > On Wed 25 Feb 2015 at 09:13:26 +0000, Curt wrote: > > > On 2015-02-25, Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > > > > There's also, I believe, a kde specific printer settings tool (of > > > > which I don't know the name) whose defaults might be conflicting with > > > > or overriding your duplex desires, although why the option would be > > > > greyed-out in various pdf viewers escapes me. > > > > > > Maybe it's 'system-config-printer-kde'. > > > > It's not. > > > > The duplex facilities are not available for any application using the > > GTK or Qt print dialogues because CUPS has not provided information > > about them. > > > > CUPS has not provided information about them them because it gets its > > information from the Duplex option in the PPD file. The brother PPD does > > not provide such an option. There is no bug. > > I'll argue that point, something has changed between wheezy and lucid that > is now causing the bug. > > Yes it (the Brother PPD, read it, attached if the server will pass it) does > AND cups CAN select it, so why cannot the rest of the system make use of > it? > > Question: How can I show this dialogue interchange between cups and the > GTK or Qt print dialogs? > > A Clue and the only one I have ATM: > These options become unghosted and selectable in both of the print dialogs > IF the two characters 'BR' are removed from all those strings in the > Brother ppd. But then, despite being able to select them in the print > dialogs, it still does _not_ work. BTDT about 3 times now. So that > 'patch' is incomplete because the printer does not (apparently) understand > it with the BR's removed. It did work, has worked for about 2 years now, > and the firmware in the printer has not been changed after the initial > reload two years ago. > > > The inability to print in duplex is not related to the greying-out in > > the print dialogues. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
So the ppd did make it thru the server, it was 32kb, but apparently the installer script, at 89k or so, did not. The whole message seems to be blocked. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201502251043.40923.ghesk...@wdtv.com
