On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 11:10:04PM -0400, Michael George wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 08:47:49AM -0500, Dale wrote: > > Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > > On 29 Apr, Stroller wrote: > > > > > >> On 28 Apr 2010, at 15:27, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > >> > > >>>> ... > > >>>> Why do you need to bypass CUPS? > > >>>> > > >>> Thanks, it's just for debugging. > > >>> > > >>> Printing some pdf files with acroread makes some printers > > >>> hang here. > > >>> To locate the problem source, I'd like to check if the printer > > >>> works if it gets the postscript or pdf-file (there printer is assumed > > >>> to accept postscript level 3). > > >>> > > >> Have you tried using `lpr` at the command line? > > >> > > >> I *believe* something like `lpr /path/to/file.pdf` should work. > > >> > > >> > > > Thanks, but lpr is just a front-end for cups. > > > > > > > > > > I tried that here and got a error. It may be a bad setting on my end > > but it didn't like the idea. > > > > r...@smoker ~ # lpr /data/pdf/LivingWill.pdf > > lpr: Unsupported format 'application/pdf'! > > r...@smoker ~ # > > I started noticing this today too. My Macs aren't able to successfully > print, I just get an error in the error log about application/pdf being > an unsupported format. > > If I take a PDF generated on the Mac and move it to my Linux system and > run "lpr <filename>.pdf" I get: > lpr: Unsupported format 'application/pdf'! > > If I use "pdftops" to generate a PS file, "lpr <filename>.ps" works > fine. If I open the PDF in xpdf and print, telling it to use the > command "lpr," that also works fine. > > I upgraded from cups 1.3.10 to 1.3.11 today (cannot go back). I've > rebuilt all the foomatic packages I had installed, gutenprint, cups-pdf, > ghostscript-gpl, but still it doesn't work...
I'm not sure that you are having the same problem I am, but I found the solution here to work for me: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=309901 -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot.
