On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 05:35:00PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > I'm using a HP LaserJet 1300 printer with Devuan. I used to able to > print PDFs without a problem. But when I installed the operating > system on new hardware I could no longer print PDFs. > > A two-word PDF prints OK. More complicated PDFs are sent to the queue > but rather than print simply ñturn on the printer's error LED. The > printer is using the recommaned Poststcript filter. > > In CUPS inteface the printer is seen as: > > HP_LaserJet_1320_series > HP LaserJet 1320 series lenin > HP LaserJet 1320 series Postscript (recommended) > Processing - "Use "pdftops-renderer" option (see cups-filters README file) > to use Ghostscript or MuPDF for the PDF -> PostScript conversion." > > I look at /usr/share/doc/cups-filters/README.gz. It seems that to print > PDFs I must download and compile cups-filters-1-current.tar.gz. This is > where I got into trouble. > > Poppler, freetype, fontconfig, and liblcms (liblcms2 recommended) must > be installed to be able to compile this package. > > I don't have access to a program named "poppler": > > i A poppler-data - encoding data for the poppler PDF > renderi > i A poppler-utils - PDF utilities (based on Poppler) > p python3-poppler-qt5 - Python binding to Poppler-Qt5 C++ > library > i A qpdfview-pdf-poppler-plugin - tabbed document viewer - DjVu plugin > p ruby-poppler > > I do have fontconfig installed and also liblcms2-2 installed. > > Because the BZT repository does not contain a prebuilt configure > script, I must first run autoconfig. This only leads to some undefined > macro errors. It says please use m4_pattern_allow. Man autoconf says > nothing about what this means. > > Why has printing a PDF become so difficult? This makes no sense to me
I had better luck when I rejected the recommended filter and instead chose the pcl3 filter. Sorry to waste your time. -- Haines Brown _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
