On Wed 25 Feb 2015 at 09:54:04 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 25 February 2015 04:46:46 Brian wrote: > > > > 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.
You can dispute it as much as you want but I am sitting in front of a machine running ubuntu-10.04.4-desktop-i386 with a print queue set up for an HL-3170CDW with Brother's packages. The GTK print dialogue shows Two-sided printing as "Not available". Does your setup show something different? > 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? You have described the result of the interchange below. > 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. You didn't comment on this but I'll add that the greying-out is a red herring (as is the invoking of poppler) as far as the cause of your problem with duplex printing is concerned. -- 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/20150225173619.gd11...@copernicus.demon.co.uk
