[PLUG] Why lpr Works ... or Doesn't

[wes]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Galen Seitz wrote:
>
> > I agree with Wes.  The problem is likely related to cups magic filtering.
> > What printer language are you using with each of your printers?
>
> galen/wes, et al.:
>
>   epfdview has no issues printing to the color laserjet. It worked fine. So
> far, it's only xpdf that gives me problems. I'll try an application like
> GRASS or R and see what they do.
>
>
>
I think in order to progress with this situation, one would need more
information, unless someone were already familiar with these conditions and
knew the answer.

If this were my setup, well, firstly I'd say "I'll just use something else"
- but if I did get curious enough to investigate further, I'd start looking
at how xpdf does its job. Watching CUPS logs is a good starting point for
this, as well as Tools like strace and ltrace. I don't know if lpr has its
own logging capabilities. If so, I'd be looking into them.

-wes