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?
Leslie
J Leslie Turriff wrote:
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
On 2018-12-28 16:19:54 deloptes wrote:
J Leslie Turriff wrote:
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
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
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. :-)
And my KPDF prints documents perfectly well and I do not print from command line (except text files, but even those are printed from kate or similar mostly)
regards
On 2019-01-13 02:11:58 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. :-)
And my KPDF prints documents perfectly well and I do not print from command line (except text files, but even those are printed from kate or similar mostly)
regards
Great! Any suggestions for tracking this down? Would it be in my MIME settings? Something to do with TDEPrint? KPDF itself? or...?
On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 03:14:11 -0600 J Leslie Turriff jlturriff@mail.com wrote:
On 2019-01-13 02:11:58 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. :-)
And my KPDF prints documents perfectly well and I do not print from command line (except text files, but even those are printed from kate or similar mostly)
regards
Great! Any suggestions for tracking this down? Would it be in my MIME settings? Something to do with TDEPrint? KPDF itself? or...?
I would start by digging into the CUPS error logs to see if it can tell you what TDEPrint told it to do that was inappropriate. It should be able to tell you what document types it thought it was being sent and what filters failed to apply.
E. Liddell
J Leslie Turriff wrote:
Great! Any suggestions for tracking this down? Would it be in my MIME settings? Something to do with TDEPrint? KPDF itself? or...?
Hard to tell - what I wanted to say is that if you have it setup properly it should come up with this message. The question is what is wrong ... try/follow the chain - we can exclude KPDF and probably tdeprint. Error message suggest it can not convert to postscript. Look in this direction.
Look at the log files. Come up with more information.
regards
On Wednesday, 16. January 2019, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2019-01-13 02:11:58 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. :-)
And my KPDF prints documents perfectly well and I do not print from command line (except text files, but even those are printed from kate or similar mostly)
regards
Great! Any suggestions for tracking this down? Would it be in my MIME settings? Something to do with TDEPrint? KPDF itself? or...?
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Which TDE version do you use? I have had similar problems with version R14.0.4. The problem was solved by updating to R14.0.5. Pressing "Keep" prints the document in my case, but printing selected pages was only possible via file and okular.
Regards, Stef
On 2019-01-29 03:46:53 update wrote:
On Wednesday, 16. January 2019, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2019-01-13 02:11:58 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. :-)
And my KPDF prints documents perfectly well and I do not print from command line (except text files, but even those are printed from kate or similar mostly)
regards
Great! Any suggestions for tracking this down? Would it be in my MIME settings? Something to do with TDEPrint? KPDF itself? or...?
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Which TDE version do you use? I have had similar problems with version R14.0.4. The problem was solved by updating to R14.0.5. Pressing "Keep" prints the document in my case, but printing selected pages was only possible via file and okular.
Regards, Stef
I'm also on R14.0.4. There is no working repository for R14.0.x on OpenSuSE.
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