Printing problem

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Ian Stephen wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 05:17, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > It would seem the C84 has plenty of trouble :(
> > I have been using a C84 for some time in a networked install.  Since
> > upgrading Mozilla apps (or some automated update from SuSE) I lost the
> > ability to print from Mozilla (and perhaps OOo, hadn't checked).  The
> > issue for me was using the "2-pages in one" setting inside of KPrinter.
> > ~ For some reason this caused the print job to be dumped and never
> > actually reached the printer.  Perhaps since this is networked this
> > could be the same or similar issue?
>
> I'll check that, thanks.  I think this is something different though
> 'cause all jobs reach the printer, just some applications print properly
> while OpenOffice.org and Firefox print unfiltered postscript.
>
> What's coming out of the printer is the same as what is seen if one
> prints to file (postscript) from OpenOffice.org, then opens that file in
> Emacs.
>
> ie;
> %!PS-Adobe-3.0
> %%BoundingBox: (atend)
> %%Creator: OpenOffice.org 1.1.3
>
> and so on for thousands of lines.

so its not detecting those files as postscript, but rather raw (plain)
text.  i wonder how cups decides what is ps and what is text?

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