The ppd file for the CUPS printer xxxx could not be loaded.

[Daniel Kasak <dkasak nusconsulting com au>]

Hi all.

It used to be that when I opened a ( gnome ) print dialog from an app 
such as gpdf, evince, abiword, etc, it would detect the default settings 
of the selected printer - I assume it was inspecting the ppd of the 
printer. This is no longer working.

When I open a print dialog, I get a stream of messages:

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Model not found, discarding config

(evince:22540): GnomePrintCupsPlugin-WARNING **: iconv does not support 
ppd character encoding: ISOLatin1, trying CSISOLatin1
GnomePrintCupsPlugin-Message: The ppd file for the CUPS printer 
Laserjet4050 could not be loaded.
GnomePrintCupsPlugin-Message: The ppd file for the CUPS printer 
Laserjet4500 could not be loaded.
GnomePrintCupsPlugin-Message: The ppd file for the CUPS printer 
RicohAF2027 could not be loaded.
GnomePrintCupsPlugin-Message: The ppd file for the CUPS printer 
RicohAP3200 could not be loaded.

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The setting that I'm most interested in at the moment is the default 
paper size. Other apps ( eg OpenOffice ) correctly detect that all my 
printers are A4 printers. All gnome apps that use the gnome print dialog 
insist on defaulting to Letter sized paper.

I'm running CUPS-1.1.23 on server and clients ( both Gentoo Linux ). All 
printers are of course shared via CUPS IPP from the server.

I'm also running Gnome-2.12.1.

Any ideas?

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Daniel Kasak
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