For the moment, this is just a heads-up, but since ghostscript-8.71 is in the book I figured I should report it sooner rather than later (unlike my problems with other things with versions that aren't in the book).
I was using 8.70 for a long time, with a sed to fix it up for x86_64 (that's probably in the list archives, or failing that download my recent buildscripts from lfs/~ken/ ). I figured that now is probably an appropriate time to update most of the old versions I've been building. My printer is an epson 360 inkjet, and I print with cups->ghostscript->gutenprint. With cups=1.4.4, ghostscript-8.71, gutenprint-5.2.* attempting to print the cups test page produces a page, but it's just horizontal bands of dark grey (i.e. black) with a few lighter bands. This seems to use about 6% of my black ink cartridge, so its a pain. Reverting to 8.70, it works fine again. Maybe I'll get round to looking to see if any distro has fixed this, but for the moment I've got a growing pile of issues with other packages and 8.70 just works. This isn't the first time I've had printer problems, but trying to change versions can be a pain, so I'll mention that the easiest way to try different versions of any of these printer packages is: in cups, delete the printer stop cups server : /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups/stop remove /etc/cups /usr/lib/cups /usr/lib/libcups* /var/spool/cups /usr/lib/libgutenprint* rebuild cups (if you are changing the version, you might want to rebuild gtk+ after cups), rebuild ghostscript (no need to rebuild the fonts), rebuild gutenprint /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups start add the printer and test it ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
