On Wednesday 25 February 2015 12:36:19 Brian wrote:
> 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?
>
And the GTK dialog is used with which programs? Likewise the QT4 version is
used with which programs? At least one of them is not proud enough of its
name to offer up its name up for public view, or ridicule as the case might
be.
> > 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.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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