On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Christian Hammers<[email protected]> wrote: > Am Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:48:10 +0300 > schrieb Martin-Éric Racine <[email protected]>: > >> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Christian Hammers<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hello >> > >> > I experienced the same problem and in mine case, too, >> > installing ghostscript-cups and restarting CUPS solved the problem. >> > Please adjust the dependencies! >> >> This package already is in Recommends. Is there any compelling reason >> to promote it to Depends? > > I could neither print text files with a2ps, documents with OpenOffice nor > web pages using Firefox! So this was a real show stopper. > > My guess is that most apps convert their sources to postscript before > sending it to CUPS which would justify a dependency to whatever CUPS > needs to be able to print postscript.
Actually, as recently pointed out by Till Kamppeter, all Free Software applications are in the process of converting to producing PDF (which is a superset of Postscript) as the default output format. Martin-Éric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
