On Tuesday 24 February 2015 10:16:24 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 24 February 2015 04:47:14 Curt wrote: > > On 2015-02-24, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > >> Why not print a page range? > > > > I fail to understand why you don't print a test page from the CUPS > > interface, after having selected duplex printing as a default printing > > option. I don't know what this would tell us if it did (or didn't) work, > > but less trees might suffer in the interim. Perhaps duplex printing as a > > default option in the CUPS web interface is unavailable. > > Apparently that only works using the brother drivers. I can run it in > postscript mode too, but in that mode the cups test page crashes it, > and it crashes at the end of any print job sent to it, in all cases > needing a power cycle to restore it for the next job. > > The brother drivers have all the duplex operations visible in the > localhost:631 access, but there is absolutely no facility in wheezy that > can use it, those options are in the printer dialogs presented by any > other program from geany thru evince and okular, all show the duplex > operations ghosted out and unavailable. > > The point being that all of this worked flawlessly for ubuntu-10.04.4 LTS. > > Someone said that libpoppler can't do duplex, but wheezy is supposed to be > newer. I have the old drive mounted, so I'll just go check libpoppler > versions. > > Here is what I can find: > root@coyote:/etc/default# ls -l `locate poppler|grep '/opt' -` > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2127836 Jun 11 2012 > /mnt/ltsslash/opt/calibre/lib/libpoppler.so.25 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root > 2127836 Jun 11 2012 /opt/calibre/lib/libpoppler.so.25 -rw-r--r-- 1 root > root 49076 Nov 25 10:23 /opt/trinity/lib/libpoppler-tqt.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 > root root 23 Nov 25 10:22 /opt/trinity/lib/libpoppler-tqt.so.0 -> > libpoppler-tqt.so.0.0.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49080 Nov 25 10:23 > /opt/trinity/lib/libpoppler-tqt.so.0.0.0 root@coyote:/etc/default# ls -l > `locate poppler|grep '/usr/lib' -` -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167400 Nov 8 > 2011 /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/kde4/okularGenerator_poppler.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 > root root 24 Apr 4 2013 /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/libpoppler-glib.so.4 > -> libpoppler-glib.so.4.0.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191248 Mar 28 2013 > /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/libpoppler-glib.so.4.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root > 23 Aug 15 2014 /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/libpoppler-qt4.so.3 -> > libpoppler-qt4.so.3.2.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 453476 Mar 28 2013 > /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/libpoppler-qt4.so.3.2.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root > 19 Apr 4 2013 /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/libpoppler.so.5 -> > libpoppler.so.5.0.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1853748 Mar 28 2013 > /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/libpoppler.so.5.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 > Sep 4 > 08:20 /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/poppler.so -> > /usr/lib/pyshared/python2.6/poppler.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66896 Jan > 25 2010 /mnt/ltsslash/usr/lib/pyshared/python2.6/poppler.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 > root root 24 Feb 3 22:15 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpoppler-glib.so.8 > -> libpoppler-glib.so.8.2.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 238940 Mar 25 2013 > /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpoppler-glib.so.8.2.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root > 23 Mar 25 2013 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpoppler-qt4.so.3 -> > libpoppler-qt4.so.3.7.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 345440 Mar 25 2013 > /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpoppler-qt4.so.3.7.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root > 20 Feb 3 22:15 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpoppler.so.19 -> > libpoppler.so.19.0.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1922928 Mar 25 2013 > /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpoppler.so.19.0.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17768 > Jun 3 2012 > /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/tumbler-1/plugins/tumbler-poppler-thumbnailer.so > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184568 Nov 28 2012 > /usr/lib/kde4/okularGenerator_poppler.so > > This obviously shows the version trinity installed, which I did yesterday > because wheezy's kmail version 1.13.7 has broken font rendering in the > message window as described in about 15 posts to the list with no solution > that worked offered. I'd file a bug but my wall is so full of scribbled > passwds that I cannot find the one I want the next time I need it now. > > kmail 1.9.5, except for a lack of a dbus port, just works. > > The above list is a bit confusing but if I can get that so.25 version > linked correctly, it would be my next attempt to solve this problem. > Someone said that it was the wheezy version of it that cannot do > duplex. It works, with the above gotcha's if I use a postscript level 1 > driver in cups. Does anyone have a clue how old level 1 is? Several > decades. We already had level 2 support in ghostscript when I built it > at version 5.02 on an amiga in the middle 90's. I have a copy of the > postscript level 3 specification on the shelf above me thats at least > 15 years old, printed from that same amiga. > > I see by the above list that kde has its own, less than 10% of the size > of the so.25 that calibre uses.
FWIW, I loaded a pdf into calibre, it showed me only a thumbnail of the cover page, and I crashed it looking for a print this option. Apparently it can only deal with e-pubs and I don't have any according to locate. I did find another libpoppler in backports, installed it, but okular is still emasculated. Sniff. The printer in question is a Brother HL-3170CDW. Running on Brothers own linux drivers. Can anyone else duplicate this problem? > If indeed its libpopplers problem, how about getting everybody on the > same page, using just one version that works for everyone? This install has 7 (now 8) versions! > Can we please introduce the left hand to the right hand here? > I will install calibre here, and see if it is so crippled. Stay tuned. Thanks Charles. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201502241114.23925.ghesk...@wdtv.com
