Rawhide woes: CUPS and xpdf

[Hans de Goede]

Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:03:18 -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
> 
>> Re: Printing: It doesn't work, period. From a x86_64 to a local
>> paralell printer, or from a i386 notebook over the network (both are
>> PostScript printers), the only things I can print are the testpage
>> (via the CUPS control page) or text files (via lpr). If I try to
>> print PostScript of PDF, CUPS claims the files get queued, are being
>> printed, and then got printed normally, but nothing whatsoever does
>> show up.
> 
> Same here (cups to a PS printer via SMB). Cups test page works, and claims
> that the imageable area is 260x367mm, which is plainly ridiculous (this is
> an A4 printer), although I do now know where those numbers come from.
> 
> Printing the A4 test page results in the printer spinning up (so something
> is sent there), but no print is produced in the end.
> 

In my case there is a print prodecuded containging the upperleft or was 
it lower right? corner of the 1 cm border of the A4 testpage, besides 
that the page is all white.

Regards,

Hans