Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 19:18:25 -1000 From: hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printing with cups - gnome-office -solved Message-ID: <4a40244a663e.4a663e4a4024@socal.rr.com>
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On Wednesday, October 6, 2004 7:44 pm I sent this query prematurely. > > # Aloha > # On this past Sunday(10-3-4) I posted this question to freebsd-gnome. > # I have not received any responses. Can anyone on this list help? > # Thanks > > I am having a problem with CUPS and Gnome. I am running > Gnome 2.6.2, Gnome-Office, and Xorg all installed via ports. > > I have a P4 2.6 with 1G of ram > > %uname -a > FreeBSD p4.hawaii.rr.com 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD > 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 #9: Sun Oct 3 10:25:03 HST 2004 > root at p4.hawaii.rr.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/P4BSD1 i386 > > I recently attached a HP 890C DeskJet printer. I installed > Cups and gnome-cups-manager from ports. I am able to use the > web interface and install the printer. The test page prints > fine. I can also print a text file from gedit without trouble. > > # I can also print a test page from gnome-cups-manager > > The problem is with AbiWord2, gnumeric and the pdf files. The > Print Preview screens show blank and when I click on file; print; > and then the paper tab, the "Paper size" field is not bold and > reads "no options are defined". I did define the paper in the > web setup of cups and these programs do show the 890C as the printer. > > Of course, I am unable to print from these programs. > > Here is a little info: > > %pkg_info | grep cups > cups-1.1.20.0 The Common UNIX Printing System: Metaport to > install comple > cups-base-1.1.20.0 The Common UNIX Printing System: headers, libs, > & daemons > cups-lpr-1.1.20.0 The CUPS BSD and system V compatibility > binaries (lp* comma > cups-pstoraster-7.07_1 GNU Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing > to non-PS prin > gnome-cups-manager-0.18_1,1 Admistration tool for cups > libgnomecups-0.1.8,1 Support library for gnome cups admistration > > %cat /etc/printcap > # This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the > # /usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf file. All changes to this file > # will be lost. > HP890C|HP890C:rm=p4.hawaii.rr.com:rp=HP890C: > > > I have also done a "portupgrade -f libgnomeprint-\* libgnomeprintui- > \*"to no avail. > > If anything else is needed I will be overjoyed to provide it. > > Please CC me as I do not subscribe to this list. Thanks for your time. > > Robert I thought I had exhausted all the resources available to me but once again I proved myself wrong. For the archives and all the newbies (me) that have struggled with Cups. I found the simple answer here http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ranga/notes/freebsd_cups.html Specifically, I ran the following script in /usr/bin #!/bin/sh for i in lp* ; do mv $i $i.default ; ln -s /usr/local/bin/$i $i ; done Sorry for the noise. Robert
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