Hi, Dale. On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 09:57:23AM -0500, Dale wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hi, Gentoo.
> > My printer used to work. According to CUPS, its last succesful print > > was in February. (Incidentally, I used to have an up-to-date system, but > > that went when I screwed it up after Gentoo made Gnome-3 stable and I > > tried to switch out of Gnome. My last emerge --sync was around the same > > time.) > > When I tried to print a *.pdf from evince, I got an error message saying > > /path/to/foomatic-rip didn't exist. (Sorry, I can't reproduce the exact > > error message any more). It would seem there has been a change from > > foomatic filters to cups-filters (which I have installed) at some stage. > > But I don't recall this change, and I can't find any docs about how to > > configure printing to use cups-filters. When I go through the "Modify > > printer" sequence in http://localhost:631, and try to change the filter, > > I just get presented with a long list of foomatic filters. > > I've been at this stage for some while now, dreading the impending hours > > and hours of web searching. Any tips people can give me to cut this > > miserable process short will be most warmly received. > > By the way, what has happened to the helpful documentation which used to > > be at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en? Most of it seems to have > > disappeared. There used to be a helpful doc on setting up a printer, > > but that has gone. (I'm lucky enough to be able to read the German > > translations, which (largely, at least) still exist, but they're > > somewhat out of date). > When I run into this issue, I delete the printer and add it back. For > some reason, that has always fixed my issues. It seems that when CUPS > gets upgraded, it needs the printers reconfigured from scratch. > Hope that helps. Well it did, and it didn't. I deleted then added the printer as you suggested. Nothing. But somehow, that brought me to consider the error message I reported above. So I emerged foomatic-filters (which, somehow, I'd removed in February), and now printing works, at least for files.pdf. So, thanks for the email, it brought me back to sanity. > Dale > :-) :-) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
