[arch-general] cups 1.5.3-3 requires gs
It does not seem to be documented (e.g. pacman -Qi cups) but cups 1.5.3-3 requires ghostscript to be installed. This is a change for some of us who had not otherwise needed ghostscript. FYI T.
On Tue, 29 May 2012 13:26:02 -0500 rara8avis@aol.com wrote:
It does not seem to be documented (e.g. pacman -Qi cups) but cups 1.5.3-3 requires ghostscript to be installed. This is a change for some of us who had not otherwise needed ghostscript. FYI
T.
cups-filters optionally depends on ghostscript (just as cups 1.5.3-2 did). -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 01:48:24PM -0500, Leonid Isaev wrote:
On Tue, 29 May 2012 13:26:02 -0500 rara8avis@aol.com wrote:
It does not seem to be documented (e.g. pacman -Qi cups) but cups 1.5.3-3 requires ghostscript to be installed. This is a change for some of us who had not otherwise needed ghostscript. FYI
T.
cups-filters optionally depends on ghostscript (just as cups 1.5.3-2 did).
This is not an optional dependance that I am talking about. When I tried to print from libreoffice via cups 1.5.3-3, cups failed because it called gs but I had no ghostscript installed. After installed gs, I print easily. So my experience is that gs is now a necessity to print through cups. T.
Am Tue, 29 May 2012 14:05:28 -0500 schrieb rara8avis@aol.com:
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 01:48:24PM -0500, Leonid Isaev wrote:
On Tue, 29 May 2012 13:26:02 -0500 rara8avis@aol.com wrote:
It does not seem to be documented (e.g. pacman -Qi cups) but cups 1.5.3-3 requires ghostscript to be installed. This is a change for some of us who had not otherwise needed ghostscript. FYI
T.
cups-filters optionally depends on ghostscript (just as cups 1.5.3-2 did).
This is not an optional dependance that I am talking about. When I tried to print from libreoffice via cups 1.5.3-3, cups failed because it called gs but I had no ghostscript installed. After installed gs, I print easily. So my experience is that gs is now a necessity to print through cups.
T.
Ghostscript should only be needed if your printer is not capable to print PostScript directly. So it was in the past with pure cups. That's also what cups-filters README says. Maybe you have to (re)choose your driver now or try a different one. -Andy
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 09:59:44PM +0200, Andreas Radke wrote:
Am Tue, 29 May 2012 14:05:28 -0500 schrieb rara8avis@aol.com:
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 01:48:24PM -0500, Leonid Isaev wrote:
On Tue, 29 May 2012 13:26:02 -0500 rara8avis@aol.com wrote:
It does not seem to be documented (e.g. pacman -Qi cups) but cups 1.5.3-3 requires ghostscript to be installed. This is a change for some of us who had not otherwise needed ghostscript. FYI
T.
cups-filters optionally depends on ghostscript (just as cups 1.5.3-2 did).
This is not an optional dependance that I am talking about. When I tried to print from libreoffice via cups 1.5.3-3, cups failed because it called gs but I had no ghostscript installed. After installed gs, I print easily. So my experience is that gs is now a necessity to print through cups.
T.
Ghostscript should only be needed if your printer is not capable to print PostScript directly. So it was in the past with pure cups. That's also what cups-filters README says. Maybe you have to (re)choose your driver now or try a different one.
-Andy
Thanks. I have used the ppd file from Brother for years, which, as I understand it, includes a ps emulation. Cups-filters is new with me as of today and seems to be what requires gs. Oddly, the log shows gs is called and then deactivated; so its installation is required (cups quits without gs) but ultimately not used. I reselected the driver in the frontend to cups but that didn't change the gs requirement. It would be nice not to install unneeded software. T.
On Tue, 29 May 2012 14:05:28 -0500 rara8avis@aol.com wrote:
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 01:48:24PM -0500, Leonid Isaev wrote:
On Tue, 29 May 2012 13:26:02 -0500 rara8avis@aol.com wrote:
It does not seem to be documented (e.g. pacman -Qi cups) but cups 1.5.3-3 requires ghostscript to be installed. This is a change for some of us who had not otherwise needed ghostscript. FYI
T.
cups-filters optionally depends on ghostscript (just as cups 1.5.3-2 did).
This is not an optional dependance that I am talking about. When I tried to print from libreoffice via cups 1.5.3-3, cups failed because it called gs but I had no ghostscript installed. After installed gs, I print easily. So my experience is that gs is now a necessity to print through cups.
T.
I don't know how exactly LO submits print jobs (odt/doc -> pdf/ps?), but I am surprised you didn't need gs before. However, the only change in cups is just a reallocation of filters and a rebuild against new poppler, which I think is to blame... -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 04:10:35PM -0500, Leonid Isaev wrote:
On Tue, 29 May 2012 14:05:28 -0500 rara8avis@aol.com wrote:
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 01:48:24PM -0500, Leonid Isaev wrote:
On Tue, 29 May 2012 13:26:02 -0500 rara8avis@aol.com wrote:
It does not seem to be documented (e.g. pacman -Qi cups) but cups 1.5.3-3 requires ghostscript to be installed. This is a change for some of us who had not otherwise needed ghostscript. FYI
T.
cups-filters optionally depends on ghostscript (just as cups 1.5.3-2 did).
This is not an optional dependance that I am talking about. When I tried to print from libreoffice via cups 1.5.3-3, cups failed because it called gs but I had no ghostscript installed. After installed gs, I print easily. So my experience is that gs is now a necessity to print through cups.
T.
I don't know how exactly LO submits print jobs (odt/doc -> pdf/ps?), but I am surprised you didn't need gs before. However, the only change in cups is just a reallocation of filters and a rebuild against new poppler, which I think is to blame...
-- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
There may be something to that: two weeks ago I somehow got hold of poppler 20.1 and printing stopped from LO though I could print from the command prompt. When I fell back to poppler 18.4-2 then I could print fine. Once again I'm up to poppler 20.1 with the cups update and cups-filters. Thanks.
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