[arch-general] cups 1.5.3-3 requires gs

[rara8avis at aol.com]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 04:10:35PM -0500, Leonid Isaev wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2012 14:05:28 -0500
> rara8avis at 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 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.
> > 
> 
> 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...
> 
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> Leonid Isaev
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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.