From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Aug 2 19:53:22 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48820DB2E6C for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2017 19:53:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca) Received: from inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca (inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca [216.185.71.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca", Issuer "CA_HLL_ISSUER_2016" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1C0937549D; Wed, 2 Aug 2017 19:53:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 441C1621BF; Wed, 2 Aug 2017 15:53:19 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at harte-lyne.ca Received: from inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id aF8bMnUhjC-a; Wed, 2 Aug 2017 15:53:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from webmail.harte-lyne.ca (inet04.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca [216.185.71.24]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 22D5662193; Wed, 2 Aug 2017 15:53:16 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=harte-lyne.ca; s=dkim_hll; t=1501703596; bh=NiqmGLzVuyQzcwUfvezIne72lgxXvEI/1Gf5uKQEVIU=; h=In-Reply-To:References:Date:Subject:From:To:Cc:Reply-To; b=qZTQYbQ3nifM2xqi15ME8x4Fts6zlHwvYvNZ+2GTy8qJphOYSmY6diRDrHY+T/YB7 kAP6SRgQzENoMtPrruc+EsqiPTYCTAgL/wdSsachKZ0gOs+bgLUTelN8ANGJ14R+fz k6lYfDzB5NOiljYRwWiASe8hwoDxbTnXr3/kJWYucsGei4SRX+76t/xtxj6jMWvG0R zbJIabxEquoEE73nPjmntCHvBKLOywQGHt8sFMwMDjIXIzks+DhV1nCUmyWaw78T1X 9eTxk+coM0hbsfFgq+vaN8vFUoqwIM2ouuFw6Wsyz5p8iqjc6iazeSDs2DBYF7DJKg uI71QCF30t7mw== Received: from 216.185.71.44 (SquirrelMail authenticated user byrnejb_hll) by webmail.harte-lyne.ca with HTTP; Wed, 2 Aug 2017 15:53:16 -0400 Message-ID: <75f9785b727a6ff87628cf5e13bfcb3b.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> In-Reply-To: <20170802204724.2d0568fa@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> References: <02b89d54534d4f9dbe44df076e918572.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> <20170802204724.2d0568fa@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 15:53:16 -0400 Subject: Re: FreeBSD CUPS PPD From: "James B. Byrne" To: "Tijl Coosemans" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.22-5.el6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2017 19:53:22 -0000 On Wed, August 2, 2017 14:47, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Tue, 1 Aug 2017 17:29:19 -0400 "James B. Byrne via > freebsd-questions" wrote: >> We have several old Lexmark T632 printers which OpenPrinting.org >> describes as 'paperweights'. Notwithstanding OPO's value judgement >> we >> use these things as network printers for a wide variety of >> computers, >> some of which are much older than the printers. One of their uses >> is >> to produce cheques and to replace them for this purpose requires >> re-certification of the replacements. So, they are not going >> anywhere >> until they absolutely no longer work. >> >> Under CentOS-6 we use CUPS -1.4.2 with a PPD for these printers >> which >> was sourced from some forgotten place but which works very well for >> us. On FreeBSD we use CUPS -2.2.3 and the PPD we have works not >> quite >> so well. It works to the extent that the printers print but we >> cannot >> 'see' their advanced features in the CUPS Browser. There are fields >> created in the page display which are likely for this but they are >> not >> populated with options. > > What page are you looking at? I see options for my printer when I go > to Printers, select my printer and then choose Set Default Options in > the Administration drop down menu. There are multiple pages there: > General, Installed Options,... > > Can you upload the PPD somewhere? > I get exactly the same results with respect to the default options displayed from the ppd provided at this gist: https://gist.github.com/jsuwo/7237337 What I see is this: Set Printer Options Set Default Options for np4173 Options Installed Banners Policies Port Monitor Options Installed : : : : : : : * O : : * O : Where * O are radio buttons and the other colons are followed by option drop-down selection boxes which display no contents but which have differing lengths. This indicates to me that there is printer information being recognized but not displayed. I am using FirefoxESR 52.2.1 (64-bit) from the ports collection as the browser. In the profile that i amusing for this test there are no add-ons. The html source for the option page contains this: TABLE WIDTH="100%"> : : : : : : : Media Size: Media Source: But none of this is actually displayed. Just the colons and empty option selection drop-downs. -- *** e-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** Do NOT transmit sensitive data via e-Mail Do NOT open attachments nor follow links sent by e-Mail James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3