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Date:      Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:14:59 +0000
From:      Ned Harrison <nedsmailbox2@cox.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Printer fails to work after upgrade to 5.3
Message-ID:  <200501181814.59415.nedsmailbox2@cox.net>

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>Fo you have cups-pstoraster?
>
>Also, have you tried gimp-print? The drivers are excellent and work 
>extremely well with cups, especially when you use something like .
>kprinter --stdin instead of lpr. That way, you have a ton of 
>configuration options that you can easily change for each file that you 
>print.

I have cups-pstoraster-7.07_3 and gimp-print-4.2.7_1.  The settings for 
gimp-print are still there, I can see them when I access cups via 
http:/localhost:631.

I think I might have wiped out a necessary script when I used mergemaster 
after my last upgrade.  FreeBSD is very new to me so I took the defaults as 
much as possible while running mergemaster.  (I inadvertently wiped out all 
my ordinary users.  :-) Though I did catch my firewall!  Live and learn.)

I also removed packages for the Gnome desktop which I initially installed but 
decided I prefer to use KDE.  Not all of them though, I saved those which 
other packages seamed dependent on.  Basicly I removed those packages which 
did not upgrade and were not dependencies for other packages and were not 
applications which I intended to use.  I might have wiped out something 
there.

Brain dead newbie question, is there a way to send a file to print via cups 
through the command line?  That might give me an error message to track.

Thanks



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