On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Colan Schwartz wrote: > Now that I remember, cups-pdf was removed in the upgrade. Just to make sure > I remembered this correctly, I did a search, and found this: > http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3114263.0 > > "The cups-pdf package is removed as obsolete in the upgrade to Maverick, > breaking the PDF printer by removing the backend but not the printer > installation, which has to be removed manually." > > This would explain why a purge & reinstall would work. Does anyone know > why it would be considered obsolete? I think that's the real error > here, unless there's some new alternative that we don't know about.
Because ever since GTK and QT acquired the ability to save to PDF via their printing dialog, the need for a network-oriented PDF printer has been greatly reduced. This being said, the GTK implementation is so pitiful that I hardly ever use it. -- Backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf does not exist https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/573667 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
