From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 25 7:42:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.the-i-pa.com (mail.the-i-pa.com [151.201.71.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 18A4537B47A for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 07:41:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 45256 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2002 15:46:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO proxy.pt.com) (151.201.71.209) by mail.the-i-pa.com with SMTP; 25 Jan 2002 15:46:05 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology To: Cliff Sarginson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing problems with KDE Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:09:21 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <02012418440402.07381@proxy.pt.com> <20020125013326.GA1180@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20020125013326.GA1180@raggedclown.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02012510092107.07381@proxy.pt.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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