printing troubles in sid/gnucash/gnumeric

[Andrew Sackville-West]

hey gang, 

fully up-to-date sid.

first real problem I've had in forever. Just today when I was printing
some checks from gnucash I got a segfault. Gnucash crashed. After that
it won't print checks anymore. It will print reports fine, but not
checks. I've confirmed with gnucash upstream that report and check
printing are two different things (the dialogs look different). 

So the symptoms: reports print just fine, checks print to a blank
page. Even printing to a file and viewing it gets a blank page. 

Interestingly, printing in gnumeric also seems broken, but it actually
produces an error in cups foomatic-rip failed. But it will print to
a file just fine. :( 

Its all very confusing and frustrating. 

Anyone else seeing this behavior? 

thanks

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Re: printing troubles in sid/gnucash/gnumeric

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 05:55:25PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
 hey gang, 
 
 fully up-to-date sid.
 
 first real problem I've had in forever. Just today when I was printing
 some checks from gnucash I got a segfault. Gnucash crashed. After that
 it won't print checks anymore. It will print reports fine, but not
 checks. I've confirmed with gnucash upstream that report and check
 printing are two different things (the dialogs look different). 
 
 So the symptoms: reports print just fine, checks print to a blank
 page. Even printing to a file and viewing it gets a blank page. 
 
 Interestingly, printing in gnumeric also seems broken, but it actually
 produces an error in cups foomatic-rip failed. But it will print to
 a file just fine. :( 

A little update: I've downgraded from the new all-in-one wonderful
ghostscript to gs-* packages. The symptoms are almost the same except
now gnumeric will print blank pages instead of failing outright. 

So I'm at least partway there... 

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