On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:44:24PM +0100, Jeremy Henty wrote: > > I wrote: > > > CUPS refuses to work on my latest LFS system - any attempt to print > > produces 'lp: Unsupported document-format "text/plain".' . > > Fixed! I had to configure ghostscript-9.05 with --with-install-cups . > This installs the gstoraster filter program and the gstoraster.convs > configuration file that tells CUPS how to convert PostScript to raster > (I should have said that I don't have a PostScript printer.) > Ghostscript-8x didn't need this parameter. > > Perhaps this is worth mentioning on the BLFS Ghostscript page? > 1. Glad you got it working!
2. I've been using this since ghostscript-9.04 (last September, while I'd dropped out of editing BLFS). I *assume* what is currently in the book works for *someone* ? Perhaps someone with a real postscript printer ? 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
