13 Jan
2019
13 Jan
'19
1:43 a.m.
On 2018-12-28 16:19:54 deloptes wrote:
J Leslie Turriff wrote:
Nope. There's nothing wrong with my CUPS setup. I can print PDF documents
from the command line with lpr, and I can print them from something called
Document Viewer (I think it's a Gnome app). Neither of these methods
produces any errors, but they do produce printouts. :-)
Leslie
I don't often print PDF documents, but
recently when I have tried to do
so I have been stymied when KPDF told me that my document needs
conversion. It also says something about using a non-CUPS print server,
which is not my case.
I have attached screen shots of the relevant message dialogs that KPDF
produces. When I click through these, most of the time KPDF just
disappears, but sometimes I see the third dialog first. I can find no
information on what it's really wanting or trying to do, so I have no
clue as to which MIME type to choose. My understanding is that somewhat
recently, Linux has switched from printing PDFs directly to converting
them to PostScript; perhaps that has something to do with this?
What is the proper way to navigate these dialogs?
Hi, it looks like your (print) system is not configured properly. Usually
printer would print in post script or anything would be converted by the
cups server into language that your printer understands:
Adobe developed PostScript [1], while HP developed PCL [2], other use one
or both or provide their own solutions.
Basically your system (cups) has to translate whatever document in
something supported by the printer. It looks like you have to configure
your cups server to provide support for printing PDF documents. (there are
different filters and settings to do this) - perhaps look at the driver
used/configured for your printer and if needed install additional packages
to support the conversion.
[1] https://www.adobe.com/products/postscript.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_Command_Language
regards