On Tue, 29 May 2012 14:05:28 -0500 rara8a...@aol.com wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 01:48:24PM -0500, Leonid Isaev wrote: > > On Tue, 29 May 2012 13:26:02 -0500 > > rara8a...@aol.com wrote: > > > > > It does not seem to be documented (e.g. pacman -Qi cups) but cups 1.5.3-3 > > > requires ghostscript to be installed. This is a change for some of us > > > who had not otherwise needed ghostscript. FYI > > > > > > T. > > > > > > > cups-filters optionally depends on ghostscript (just as cups 1.5.3-2 did). > > > This is not an optional dependance that I am talking about. When I tried > to print from libreoffice via cups 1.5.3-3, cups failed because it called > gs but I had no ghostscript installed. After installed gs, I print easily. > So my experience is that gs is now a necessity to print through cups. > > T. >
I don't know how exactly LO submits print jobs (odt/doc -> pdf/ps?), but I am surprised you didn't need gs before. However, the only change in cups is just a reallocation of filters and a rebuild against new poppler, which I think is to blame... -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
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