Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 04:10:00 -0700 From: Frank Jahnke <jahnke@sonatabio.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Major 2.18 Issues... [Cannot print using CUPS printer in 2.18] Message-ID: <1177326600.76141.16.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> In-Reply-To: <1177305742.76805.51.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1176477788.914.12.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> <1176498564.21770.32.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1176519940.902.7.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> <1176779103.51191.24.camel@apczpv.asprd.sony.co.jp> <1177179534.80257.17.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1177305599.35139.1.camel@apczpv.asprd.sony.co.jp> <1177305742.76805.51.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 01:22 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > > Thanks for trying to reproduce this problem. I wouldn't be surprised if > > it was a problem with my setup, however since it seemed I was the seond > > person to have this problem I thought I would chime in. Agreed. > > > > > Try rebuilding libgnomeprint and gtk20 will WITH_CUPS="yes" > > > in /etc/make.conf, and see if it helps. > > > > > I already had WITH_CUPS="yes" in my /etc/make.conf. The contents of the > > file are as below. [snip] The setting are pretty similar to what I use, but I have a few more daemons started for Gnome. > > Other notes: > > 1) I can sucessfully print a test page from the CUPS web interface > > ( http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:631/ ) > > 2) I can successfully print from Openoffice, including choosing printer > > and paper type (A3,A4 etc) > > > > This leads me to believe the CUPS setup itself is not the problem. Me too. > > > > 3) I cannot print a test page from the Gnome cups manager because it > > sets the paper to Letter size (when sending a document to the printer, > > and the option to change paper size is blank (we use A4 in Japan and > > there is no Letter size in the printer. There is however A3 size > > available in the printer). The PPD file has the defaults set to A4 and > > nowhere mentions Letter size. In fact, I can't choose the paper size > > from any Gnome application except Openoffice. Me too. You would think that being able to set the paper size would be easy to do from Gnome, but no... I sometimes have the reverse problem: the ppd assumes A4, and I have letter only. That freezes the printer.
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