Re: [Gnome-print] Bug: GNOME apps have problems to print throughCUPS

[Lauris Kaplinski <lauris ximian com>]

Hello!

Thank you for bugreport. That will be fixed in next version of
gnome-print.

Best wishes,
Lauris Kaplinski

On 20 Apr 2001 19:54:10 +0200, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Oi,
> 
> I have tried to print out of Abiword, but my HP LaserJet 1100 (Mandrake
> 8.0 with CUPS 1.1.6, Foomatic, GhostScript 5.50 with ljet4 driver, GNOME
> 1.4) prints
> only the last page of the three pages of the document. I reported this
> bug to the CUPS author, Michael Sweet and he answered:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> First, the problem: the PS file puts spaces between the %% and
> keywords, which makes them non-conformant with the DSC specification.
> 
> Also, the "Page" comment does not specify a page number and sequence
> number as required by the spec, but instead puts a filename in there.
> CUPS doesn't really care about this, but other apps might.
> 
> Finally, there are three pages in this document, but only 1 (invalid)
> Page comment.  Since CUPS wraps each page with its own showpage
> operator (to support page labels, classifications, etc.) you're
> just getting all the pages overlayed on top of each other...
> 
> Please report this as a bug to the GNOME-print folks...
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Can you fix this?
> 
>    Till
> 
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