From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 23 11:14:31 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E372216A402 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:14:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jahnke@sonatabio.com) Received: from smtp.wizwire.com (smtp.wizwire.com [209.218.100.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C34B813C48A for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:14:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jahnke@sonatabio.com) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (207-104-43-212.starstream.net [207.104.43.212]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.wizwire.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l3NBD4Y6031674; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 04:13:05 -0700 From: Frank Jahnke To: Joe Marcus Clarke In-Reply-To: <1177305742.76805.51.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1176477788.914.12.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> <1176498564.21770.32.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1176519940.902.7.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> <1176779103.51191.24.camel@apczpv.asprd.sony.co.jp> <1177179534.80257.17.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1177305599.35139.1.camel@apczpv.asprd.sony.co.jp> <1177305742.76805.51.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Sonata Biosciences, Inc. Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 04:10:00 -0700 Message-Id: <1177326600.76141.16.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-WizWire-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-WizWire-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: jahnke@sonatabio.com Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Major 2.18 Issues... [Cannot print using CUPS printer in 2.18] X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jahnke@sonatabio.com List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:14:32 -0000 On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 01:22 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > > Thanks for trying to reproduce this problem. I wouldn't be surprised if > > it was a problem with my setup, however since it seemed I was the seond > > person to have this problem I thought I would chime in. Agreed. > > > > > Try rebuilding libgnomeprint and gtk20 will WITH_CUPS="yes" > > > in /etc/make.conf, and see if it helps. > > > > > I already had WITH_CUPS="yes" in my /etc/make.conf. The contents of the > > file are as below. [snip] The setting are pretty similar to what I use, but I have a few more daemons started for Gnome. > > Other notes: > > 1) I can sucessfully print a test page from the CUPS web interface > > ( http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:631/ ) > > 2) I can successfully print from Openoffice, including choosing printer > > and paper type (A3,A4 etc) > > > > This leads me to believe the CUPS setup itself is not the problem. Me too. > > > > 3) I cannot print a test page from the Gnome cups manager because it > > sets the paper to Letter size (when sending a document to the printer, > > and the option to change paper size is blank (we use A4 in Japan and > > there is no Letter size in the printer. There is however A3 size > > available in the printer). The PPD file has the defaults set to A4 and > > nowhere mentions Letter size. In fact, I can't choose the paper size > > from any Gnome application except Openoffice. Me too. You would think that being able to set the paper size would be easy to do from Gnome, but no... I sometimes have the reverse problem: the ppd assumes A4, and I have letter only. That freezes the printer.