On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 04:11:46PM -0400, james wrote: > Pdfs are becoming a challenge to print. I'm sure I'll be printing pdf files > for decades to come. > > So what application/strategy gets me past errors like this: > > "Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (version 0x50e01) with this library > (version 0x50e02)"
How is your printer connected ? If it's using The Common Unix Print System
(C.U.P.S.) as many do, try the lpr command (from `net-print/cups`). The server
on which C.U.P.S.\ is running is specified with the `-H <address>` argument, and
various options can be specified with `-o <key=value>`.
To take the example from the man page of lpr:
Print a double-sided legal document to a printer called "foo":
$ lpr -P foo -o media=legal -o sides=two-sided-long-edge filename
If your printer is remote, as mine is (on a server called `genserv`), you can do
the following:
$ lpr -H genserv -o sides=two-sided-long-edge paper.pdf
This is not a suggestion that you abandon the issue of mismatched Qt library
versions, but rather a simple workaround to use while the various Qt programs
get up-to-date with the latest versions of the libraries. Providing C.U.P.S.\ is
configured correctly with all the appropriate `ppd` files for your particular
printer model, lpr should work out-of-the-box.
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Ashley Dixon
suugaku.co.uk
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