Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:09:21 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing problems with KDE Message-ID: <02012510092107.07381@proxy.pt.com> In-Reply-To: <20020125013326.GA1180@raggedclown.net> References: <02012418440402.07381@proxy.pt.com> <20020125013326.GA1180@raggedclown.net>
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On Thursday 24 January 2002 20:33, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 06:44:04PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > > We've got a little office network that consists of some FreeBSD > > and some Windows computers. > > One of the FreeBSD computers acts as a print server. It's running > > 4.2-R and printing via lpd works fine. Printing through this print > > server using Samba from the Win stations works fine as well. lpd printing > > from a FreeBSD workstation (4.3-R) via the newtork works fine as well. > > But I can't print anything from KDE, either locally (KDE 2.1) or on the > > remote station (KDE 2.2). > > I'm guessing that it's a config problem with KDE, but I can't find much > > in the way of configuration information to tweak. The FreeBSD lpd > > printing system seems to be set up just dandy, it's a shame KDE isn't > > using it. > > Any advice? > > -- > > Look through the menus for something like (off the top of my head) > > preferences/system/printing manager > > It's in there somewhere, I used it a couple of days ago (not in > a position to run KDE at moment otherwise I would check for you) For the archives ... The solution was pretty simple. I installed magicfilter from the packages collection, and apparently ghostscript is not a required dependency. Command line printing worked fine because it wasn't using gs as a filter for simple text files, but it seems that KDE prints everything in Postscript. So I installed Ghostscript and all is well. Perhaps a heads-up to the port maintainer is in order, that ghostscript should be a dependency of magicfilter? -- Bill Moran Potential Technology technical services http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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