i think this belongs to ports@. though base lpd(8) is in the Subject:, this is probably abount cups-filters-1.27 failing on us.
i do not snip anything, ports@-people see this for the first time. for the misc@ thread see https://marc.info/?t=159165371600003 punoseva...@gmail.com (Predrag Punosevac), 2020.06.09 (Tue) 16:28 (CEST): > Marcus MERIGHI <mcmer-open...@tor.at> wrote: > > punoseva...@gmail.com (Predrag Punosevac), 2020.06.08 (Mon) 23:57 (CEST): > > > It seems that there is another change on 6.7 perhaps among packages > > > which broke printing for me. I am using built in LPD to print onto the > > > network connected Brother HL-5250DN. I am getting row PostScript output > > > on the printer instead of the document. > > > > I think I've seen the same. Though I could still print simple text > > files, like "cat foo.txt | lpr". > > Thanks for confirming the issue. I am 95% sure that this is related to > the upgrade of > > cups-filters > > package. > > Namely, there are two packages involved with my printing setup. > > a2ps and cups-filters > > a2ps has not been changed since 6.6 relase and it is still the same old > > a2ps-4.14p15 > > However, cups-filters is significantly "upgraded". OpenBSD 6.6 was > shipped with cups-filters-1.25.6. OpenBSD 6.7 was shipped with > cups-filters-1.27.4p0. Looking through internet archive and the commit log > > https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/print/cups-filters/Makefile > > cups-filters-1.27 branch was nothing but the trouble. I am not sure why > upstream quickly ditched cups-filters-1.26. When I say trouble I really > mean it. This thing broke printing on CentOS and Ubuntu not just on > OpenBSD. > > > I upgraded my package to cups-filters-1.27.5 and that didn't fix the > problems for me. I tried yesterday to go back to the last 1.25 version > > cups-filters-1.25.13 > > I was unable to compile program quickly. It requires more work. I am > surprised to find out that I am the first one reporting the issue as I > would expect more people to use LPD than CUPS. thanks, Predrag, for finding this out! regarding LPD vs. CUPS I'm afraid it's the other way round :-( > I fixed cups-filter package probably would be worth of stable binary > package effort. > > > Printing PDFs from xournal failed, with raw PS output as you describe. > > > > The machine is currently not available, probably online this afternoon, > > will post the configs then. here we go, better late than never: $ cat /etc/printcap lp|brother-mfc9120cn|Brother-MFC9120CN:\ :lp=9100@brother:\ :if=/etc/printcap.sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\ :sh: $ cat /etc/printcap.sh #!/bin/sh -e /usr/local/bin/a2ps -BRq --columns=1 -o - | \ /usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip --ppd \ /etc/foomatic/direct/brother-mfc9120cn.ppd \ -P brother-mfc9120cn Marcus
