hplip

Patrick Dupre pd520 at york.ac.uk
Wed Aug 19 20:03:09 UTC 2009


OK, but is was working with the version 3.9.6b !

> On Wednesday 19 August 2009 19:25:47 Patrick Dupre wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>> Patrick Dupre wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> When I make lpr of the attached file I only get blank pages !
>>>> I am using fedora 11 and hplip 3.9.8
>>>
>>> lpr doesn't grock postscript.  You need to feed the file through
>>> something like ghostscript first:
>>>
>>> 	gs -sOutputFile=%pipe%lpr name-of-file.ps
>>
>> Unfortunately, it is exactly the same.
>>
>> The print test page is OK, but using gs always gives me a blank page !!!!
>
> Many web pages seem to be impossible to print correctly.  I've struggled with
> this for years.  Now when that happens I 'print to file' as a pdf, then do my
> print from the pdf file.  Not ideal, but it works.
>
> The change to qt print system may be a factor, but I've seen this in firefox
> (only for some sites) long before kde4 came on the scene.
>
> Anne
>

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