[CentOS] Re: Can't print PDFs or PSs in CentOS 5.0

Thu Aug 2 21:30:23 UTC 2007
Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker at medallion.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Mark Hull-Richter
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 12:53 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: Can't print PDFs or PSs in CentOS 5.0
> 
> On 8/1/07, John Plemons <john at mavin.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Have you checked for driver up dates for the printer??  
> Could be the issue...
> >
> 
> According to most of the sites I found in Google, the last update to
> the Linux printer driver was on August 12, 2004.  I am using the
> latest RedHat drivers for RHEL 5.0 (repackaged as CentOS 5.0), which I
> am guessing contain the latest and greatest driver code available.
> 
> I am using the CUPS foomatic pclmono driver (the recommended driver)
> for this printer, and with the exception of graphics files (PDFs, PS
> from PDFs and anything from GIMP), everything prints just fine.
> 
> Since this does not appear to be a CentOS issue, I have also posted
> this in the gnome email list, although I'm not entirely sure that's
> the right place to ask, either.
> 
> Thanks - more suggestions welcome should any arise.

By the looks of it it appears to be a problem with printing postscript.

Is the ghostscript package and it's fonts properly installed?

If you enscript a text file and print it does it come out ok?

-Ross

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