I resolved this by installing ESP Ghostscript rather the standard version. All I can find is that "ESP Ghostscript used to be included with CUPS in recent version, but EasySoftware, the makers of CUPS, decided to separate the two." Mysterious. Rod
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 22:04 +1100, Rod Butcher wrote: > Sluggers, after 6 months of OK printing, print jobs now disappear into > the ether... my Epson stylus parallel printer is physically OK as it > works with the dualbooted Win2K. > Only changes I'm aware of are that I've upgraded from Gnome 2.4 to 2.9 > (I did this weeks ago but this is the first time since that I've used > the printer). > > Amongst loads of what look like routine messages > in /var/log/cups/error_log I always get the following :- > > [09/Jan/2005:21:25:15 +1100] Unable to convert file 0 to printable > format for job 22! > I [09/Jan/2005:21:25:15 +1100] Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript > installed? > > Any other things to look for ? > I have gnughostscript-8.01 installed.. + latest version of cups & > gimpprint from Mandrake 10.1... what difference should ESP Ghostscript > make ? > > Thanks > Rod > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Brought to you by a penguin, a gnu and a camel > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by a penguin, a gnu and a camel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
