Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
List,
I updated a gateway/router computer with Centos 5.6 and lost the ability to print pdf and tif files with the command "lp -d printer img.tif"
This new unit replaced a Fedora 5 system that had been working well, and is still able to print pdf and tif files withing the same network.
You should run "yum list installed> <text-file-name>" on both working and non-working system and compare (diff?) those lists.
Ljubomir
The only difference I can see between the two servers is that the one that does not work is x64 and the one that works is i386. I am about ready to use the old Fedora system as the cups server instead the Centos 5.6 that was just put together. Thanks much for your help!!!!
Greg
OK. But I was wondering if installing CentOS 5.6 i386 would help, and if it would work for you.
Lijubomir,
That is interesting, I would not have thought that changing to i386 would have solved the problem, but it might be worth the try. I will have to create some time to redo that machine. Thanks for your suggestion!!
I doubt it's an i386 vs x86_64 issue. Printing pdf documunts from the command line through cups works fine here on an x86_64 C5 system.
Have you looked at the logs in /var/log/cups/ ? You could increase the log level to debug in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf if nothing is obvious in your current logs.
For reference, with the default "info" loglevel, when printing a pdf file I get this in /var/log/cups/error_log :
I [27/Apr/2011:16:11:20 +0200] [Job 827] Adding start banner page "none". I [27/Apr/2011:16:11:20 +0200] [Job 827] Adding job file of type application/pdf. I [27/Apr/2011:16:11:20 +0200] [Job 827] Adding end banner page "none". I [27/Apr/2011:16:11:20 +0200] [Job 827] Queued on "delice" by "nthierry". I [27/Apr/2011:16:11:20 +0200] [Job 827] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops (PID 15344) I [27/Apr/2011:16:11:20 +0200] [Job 827] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/socket (PID 15345) I [27/Apr/2011:16:11:34 +0200] [Job 827] Completed successfully.