[arch-general] cups 1.5.3-3 requires gs

[Andreas Radke]

Am Tue, 29 May 2012 14:05:28 -0500
schrieb rara8avis at 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 at 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
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