[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#662780: cups: new version causes printer to hang for ages, then only print a blank page

Brian Potkin claremont102 at gmail.com
Fri May 18 09:16:37 UTC 2012


On Fri 18 May 2012 at 10:49:21 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:

> Am Freitag, den 18.05.2012, 09:28 +0100 schrieb Brian Potkin:
> > 
> > Were you printing to PDF using 'Print to file' or cups-pdf?
> 
> The first one »Print to file«. Probably that does not use CUPS at all,
> does it? I will try with CUPS-pdf and report back.

Indeed, 'Print to file' doesn't use CUPS. However, it is preferred over
cups-pdf as it does directly produce a PDF file. I'd not recommend 
using cups-pdf because it is not designed to process PDF input, which
is what your application will send to CUPS if you are using the GTK
print dialogue.

Regards,

Brian.





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