From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 14 16:49:17 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D4642987 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:49:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gw.catspoiler.org (cl-1657.chi-02.us.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:4978:f:678::2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8771A6A8 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:49:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from FreeBSD.org (mousie.catspoiler.org [192.168.101.2]) by gw.catspoiler.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id s9EGn5qf034978; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 09:49:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from truckman@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201410141649.s9EGn5qf034978@gw.catspoiler.org> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 09:49:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis Subject: Re: printing text file with LPD - non-printable characters To: zaphod@berentweb.com In-Reply-To: <20141014122631.6c83732d@rsbsd.rsb> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:49:17 -0000 On 14 Oct, Beeblebrox wrote: >> We are using in production environments CUPS in the version 1.4.3; >> this has a component 'texttops' which supports UTF-8 encoded text >> (only) and prints UTF-8 nicely on the fly. > > Thanks for the input. > Unfortunately, CUPS has been broken for me since May/14. > (http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/print-cups-base-web-interface-broken-amp-unable-to-print-td5918098.html#a5922974) > > Installed CUPS components: > cups-base-1.7.3_1, cups-client-1.7.3_2, cups-image-1.7.3_1, cups-pdf-2.6.1_1, cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_8, gutenprint-cups-5.2.10 I think it also broke for me around that timeframe until I found that I also needed cups-filters. cups-base-1.7.3_1 Common UNIX Printing System: Server cups-client-1.7.3_2 Common UNIX Printing System: Library cups cups-filters-1.0.58 Backends, filters and other software (was part of the core CUPS) cups-image-1.7.3_1 Common UNIX Printing System: Library cupsimage cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_8 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-PS printers gutenprint-cups-5.2.10 GutenPrint Printer Driver libgnomecups-0.2.3_6,1 Support library for gnome cups administration