28 Dec
2018
28 Dec
'18
9:53 p.m.
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
28 Dec
28 Dec
10:19 p.m.
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
13 Jan
13 Jan
1:43 a.m.
New subject: [users] Re: KPDF Print wants to convert my document to...what?
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
8:11 a.m.
New subject: [users] Re: KPDF Print wants to convert my document to...what?
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
16 Jan
16 Jan
9:14 a.m.
New subject: [users] Re: [users] Re: KPDF Print wants to convert my document to...what?
On 2019-01-13 02:11:58 deloptes wrote:
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...?
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 
12:30 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Re: [users] Re: [users] Re: KPDF Print wants to convert my document to...what?
On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 03:14:11 -0600
J Leslie Turriff <jlturriff(a)mail.com> wrote:
On 2019-01-13 02:11:58 deloptes wrote:
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...? 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
9:08 p.m.
New subject: [users] Re: [users] Re: KPDF Print wants to convert my document to...what?
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
29 Jan
29 Jan
9:46 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Re: [users] Re: [users] Re: KPDF Print wants to convert my document to...what?
On Wednesday, 16. January 2019, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2019-01-13 02:11:58 deloptes wrote:
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
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...?
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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
30 Jan
30 Jan
4:29 p.m.
New subject: [users] Re: [users] Re: [users] Re: KPDF Print wants to convert my document to...what?
On 2019-01-29 03:46:53 update wrote:
On Wednesday, 16. January 2019, J Leslie Turriff
wrote:
I'm also on R14.0.4. There is no working repository for R14.0.x on OpenSuSE.
Leslie
On 2019-01-13 02:11:58 deloptes wrote:
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 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...?
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http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting 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
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