[PLUG] Help: 1. Foomatic

[Jeme A Brelin]

I ended up administering a box for a friend's mother.  Long story.  I
don't really mind doing it, but I'm having a couple of problems.

First, I can't seem to print PDFs with lp.  I'm using LPRng and foomatic.

`lp file.pdf` puts the file in the queue and nothing ever happens.  I look
at /var/spool/lpd/<printername>/status.pr and it appears as though the
print job has run fine, but nothing shows up at the printer.  I can't seem
to find anything in the logs that indicate something has happened other
than successful printing.  It even appears to do the postscript
conversion.

`pdf2ps file.pdf - | lp` works fine.


Any help would be appreciated.  The following is the status.pr for a
single print of the Acrobat license PDF from the command line:

waiting for subserver to exit at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.247 ## A=<NULL> number=0 process=8948
subserver pid 8949 starting at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.250 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
accounting at start at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.250 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
opening device '/dev/lp0' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.250 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
printing job 'root at other+947' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.251 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
processing 'dfA947other', size 9067, format 'f', IF filter 'lpdomatic' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.251 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'Lpdomatic backend version $Revision: 2.2 $ running...' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.311 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - '/usr/sbin/lpdomatic: called with arguments: '--lprng','-J/usr/local/Acrobat4/Reader/License.pdf','/etc/foomatic/lpd/esc80.lom'' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.311 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - '/usr/sbin/lpdomatic: af=/etc/foomatic/lpd/esc80.lom' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.311 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'Seaerching job for option settings ...' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.344 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - '/usr/sbin/lpdomatic: options: ''' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.350 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'prepending: <</PageSize[612 792]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.351 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'prepending: <</stpMediaType(Plain)>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.351 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'prepending: <</InkType(CMYK)>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.352 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'prepending: <</HWResolution[360 360]>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.352 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'prepending: <</Quality(360sw)>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.352 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'prepending: <</Color 1>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.352 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'prepending: <</ImageType 0>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.352 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'prepending: <</Dither(Adaptive)>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.352 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'prepending: <</Gamma 1.000000>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.353 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'prepending: <</Density 1.000000>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.353 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'prepending: <</Brightness 1.000000>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.353 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'prepending: <</Saturation 1.000000>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.353 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'prepending: <</Contrast 1.000000>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.353 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'prepending: <</Cyan 1.000000>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.354 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'prepending: <</Magenta 1.000000>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.354 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'prepending: <</Yellow 1.000000>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.354 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - '/usr/sbin/lpdomatic: running: gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=stp  -sModel=escp2-c80 -sOutputFile=- -' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.355 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - '/usr/sbin/lpdomatic: ascii job' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.355 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - '/usr/sbin/lpdomatic: prepended:' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.358 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'gs  PID pid2=8953' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.361 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - '<</PageSize[612 792]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.364 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - '<</stpMediaType(Plain)>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.364 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - '<</InkType(CMYK)>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.364 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - '<</HWResolution[360 360]>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.364 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - '<</Quality(360sw)>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.364 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - '<</Color 1>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.364 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - '<</ImageType 0>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.364 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - '<</Dither(Adaptive)>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.364 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - '<</Gamma 1.000000>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.364 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - '<</Density 1.000000>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.365 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - '<</Brightness 1.000000>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.365 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - '<</Saturation 1.000000>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.365 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - '<</Contrast 1.000000>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.365 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - '<</Cyan 1.000000>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.365 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - '<</Magenta 1.000000>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.365 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - '<</Yellow 1.000000>>setpagedevice' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.365 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'setting STDOUT to be *main::KID3 and spawning a2ps -1 --medium=Letter --center-title="/usr/local/Acrobat4/Reader/License.pdf" -o - 2>/dev/null' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.365 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'foomatic-gswrapper: gs '-dSAFER' '-dNOPAUSE' '-dBATCH' '-sDEVICE=stp' '-sModel=escp2-c80' '-sOutputFile=/dev/fd/3' '-' 3>&1 1>&2' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.389 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'GNU Ghostscript 6.53 (2002-02-13)' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.435 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'Copyright (C) 2002 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved.' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.435 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.435 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'tail process done writing data to *main::STDOUT' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.711 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'KID4 finished' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.711 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'KID3 finished' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.711 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'KID1 finished' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.711 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'root process done writing job data in' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.711 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter msg - 'Main process finished' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.711 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
IF filter 'lpdomatic' filter finished at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.711 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
printing finished at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.711 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
accounting at end at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.712 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
finished 'root at other+947', status 'JSUCC' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.712 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8949
subserver pid 8949 exit status 'JSUCC' at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.713 ## A=<NULL> number=0 process=8948
esc80 at other: job 'root at other+947' printed at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.713 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8948
job 'root at other+947' saved at 2002-03-25-16:53:11.713 ## A=root at other+947 number=947 process=8948

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