[Bug 474962] Re: text prints in wide font, errors logged
Just installed ubuntu 9.10 AMD64 version on Intel Core 2 quad on Intel DG41TY mobo. With both the version of cups listed above and the upgrade to 1.4*21 get the same 6cpi on a lexmark e260dn using either the lexmark ppd or hplj4 ppd (non plus) or apple laserwriter ppd. Yesterday I started playing around with lp -o cpi=n settings, and if cpi=10 (explicitly set same as default) I got the 6cpi. cpi=20 was 12 cpi, so I kept fiddling until I empirically determined that cpi=16 produced 10cpi. It is workable, but it is so wrong. you can either hand edit /etc/cups/lpoptions or it is easier to set by running 'lpoptions -o cpi=16' as root for each printer ( use the -d printername before the -o cpi). OpenSUSE 11.2 does not do this, but I did not notice what version of cups it was on. -- text prints in wide font, errors logged https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/474962 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 474962] Re: text prints in wide font, errors logged
More testing. Suggested fix sent to me in private email. It definitely has to do with the flow of filters. My above suggestion is definitely a kluge. You should not have to lie to the cups system about the font width. Someone else emailed me privately with a different kluge that involved commenting out lines in /usr/share/cups/mime/texttopdf.convs for text/plain and for text/html. I did that but lp'ed a simple sh script and it was in the 6 cpi format again. To stop Karmic cups from munging text files you would have to comment out every kind of text file type listed in that file. When all are commented out then text files would be sent to the printer without conversion, which is what he and I want, but rather than frustrate whatever part of the filter chain is looking in texttopdf.convs for what to do, I would rather have the printing system check if it is a textfile, then do no additional filtering and send direct to the printer for those printers that can print text without it being rasterized first. One thing I notice is that none of the openSuSEs that I have run in the last several years has a texttopdf.convs file, while both versions of Ubuntu (linuxmint version of 7.04 and current 9.10) have the file. cups worked properly in 7.04 with the same convs file as in the current version. printers.conf in Karmic has 3 filter commands for each defined printer, whereas none of SuSE 10.1 and 11.1 and 7.04 have filter directives in printers.conf. I have tried to read the cups manuals, but have not found any discussion of default handling of text files. Is this a problem with Ubuntu only or also upstream to Debian? Long time since I have done any serious debugging. What is the best set of tools to try to trace when and where filters are being used and what they are chaining to? -- text prints in wide font, errors logged https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/474962 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 474962] Re: text prints in wide font, errors logged
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 447961 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/447961 This is the same bug as reported differently under number 485665. There they characterize the problem as printing 47 chars per 80 char line. 47/80 is 5.875 which we have seen as 6 cpi. -- text prints in wide font, errors logged https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/474962 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 485665] Re: lpr prints text too large, can only fit 47 characters per line
This same bug was reported 2 weeks earlier as bug # 474962. There they reported it as printing 6 CPI (47/80=.875). This report is much more thorough. It still does not get at the fundamental problem which is why is a rasterizer being called at all for printers such as my Lexmark or the Brother above, which are both capapble of printing text using PCL without any rasterization. I tried to access the cups links above that are supposed to explain the proper use of filtering, but I keep getting blank pages in my browser (firefox 3.5.7). Going directly to cups.org server and drilling down keeps leading me to .php pages that are invisible in the browser and in the page source view from the browser as well. I have posted on the other bug report pointing people to this one since the discussion here is more complete. For the time being I guess I will just rename texttopdf.convs to texttopdf.convs-fubar. I still think it would be better to short- circuit the process before it gets there. -- lpr prints text too large, can only fit 47 characters per line https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/485665 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 447961] Re: Printer autoconfigured, but LPR prints with to wide font/cpi setting
The font width problem has been reported as bug # 474962 and as bug # 485665. One place focuses on the number of chars per line, while the other one focuses on the char width. It looks like someone has put a duplicate bug notice on 474962, but there is not yet one up on 485665. I just refreshed the bug page for the later one and it now has a duplicate bug notice posted as well. Thanks to everyone who has been working on this. -- Printer autoconfigured, but LPR prints with to wide font/cpi setting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/447961 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 447961] Re: Printer autoconfigured, but LPR prints with to wide font/cpi setting
Just found another bug # reporting the fontwidth problem: bug # 488268 . -- Printer autoconfigured, but LPR prints with to wide font/cpi setting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/447961 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 447961] Re: Printer autoconfigured, but LPR prints with to wide font/cpi setting
I followed the instructions above to go to the link that explains how to set things up to install the package from -proposed. My /etc/apt/lists.conf has # Proposed deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-proposed restricted main multiverse universe at the end of the file. The GUI for adding repos shows it checked, but when I search on cups in synaptic I am not presented with any cups newer than 1.4.1-5ubuntu21 or whatever. If I run the command line aptitude above I do not find any new version when I search in that menu either. Since I am not sure what packagename I need to get I have not tried the commandline 'sudo aptitude packagename/karmic-proposed' . Any idea why I do not see the package? -- Printer autoconfigured, but LPR prints with to wide font/cpi setting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/447961 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 447961] Re: Printer autoconfigured, but LPR prints with to wide font/cpi setting
Thanks. I have been away from ubuntu for awhile and am rusty, so forgot to do that. I have now done it, saw that all the repos updated. Saw the lines: Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-proposed/main Packages Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-proposed/multiverse Packages Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic-proposed/universe Packages on the console. Looked at both synaptics and aptitude and searched all the way through every instance of the word cups returned by their search routines and could not find any cups anything newer than 1.4.1-5*. In addition to adding karmic-proposed to sources.list, I also created the file /etc/apt/preferences according to the howto. Could that be related? -- Printer autoconfigured, but LPR prints with to wide font/cpi setting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/447961 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 447961] Re: Printer autoconfigured, but LPR prints with to wide font/cpi setting
I was able to install the above update. The presence of /etc/apt/preferences with a priority of 400 was, I believe, causing synaptic to hide it. I may also have been confused about the package name. I was looking for cups1.4.2-7, but the ubuntu number still starts out as 1.4.1-5Ubuntu2.2. Once I got that straightened out then I was able to update with synaptics. I might have been able to do it with aptitude to begin with. Then I mv'ed preferences to preferences-SAVE. I just printed /etc/hosts and a very simple shell script (#!/bin/sh on one line, simple command on next line) and both printed in the proper 10 cpi courier-looking font. I have not tried printing to a PDF yet. However, I would like to be able to pass text files directly to the printer without rasterizing it. -o raw doesn't work because LF needs to be changed to CR-LF. Raw text files print about twice as dark as the text files that are rasterized by cups. Thank you all for at least straightening out the original bug. -- Printer autoconfigured, but LPR prints with to wide font/cpi setting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/447961 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 341503] Re: update-manager crashed with SystemError in requiredDownload()
After no problems for several months, I got bit again trying to do a weekly update of karmic. I was initially directed to update some obsolete files mostly krb libs. I did so, tried to run update manager again and was directed here. -- update-manager crashed with SystemError in requiredDownload() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/341503 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 341503] Re: update-manager crashed with SystemError in requiredDownload()
I reported a new bug #521403 from apport, but received email that it was the same ss this one. I do not understand all the files that apport collects, but my crash was not on an upgrade from one version to another (intrepid to jaunty for this bug) but rather a weekly security update of karmic involving screensaver, mysql and the newest released kernel for karmic. I believe I had the same kind of crash on the weekly update last week, but it ran through a second time I tried it I believe. This time I was able to go to synaptic, have it show me the packages available for upgrade (within version 9.10 or 9.04 or whatever ought to be called update rather than upgrade it seems to me). It showed me the ones that I remembered as having available upgrades, so I selected them withing synaptic and ran apply, turned on full verbosity and saw no errors when I rebooted not since, except that it has thrown an apport error (without offering me the apport error reporting) with nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin (command line "/usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux/npviewer.bin --plugin /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Browser/intellinux/nppdf.so --connection /org/wrapper/NSPlugins/nppdf.so/3245-1") Which I thought I had removed when I installed the alpha flash library for x86_64 arch. What do I need to look at to understand how my bug is the same as this one? I do not have any files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ . -- update-manager crashed with SystemError in requiredDownload() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/341503 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 153457] Re: iguanaIR support not functional
I am running 10.04.1 on an Asus EB1012. I was able to work around this with the iguanair deb file that is currently on iguanaworks .net, iguanaIR-1.0.1-1.i386.deb, but the lirc package they had there, lirc_0.8.7~pre3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb, gave a broken install. I rm'ed it and used the link above in comment #23, and it works, but it is not exposed in their downloads section anymore. I followed their advice to issue the command "echo lirc hold| sudo dpkg --set-selections", although I am not sure it will work. Synaptic shows a bang in the icon button for lirc. I will have to wait and see what update manager tries to do with it. >From what I gather here there is some problem upstream with including iguanaIR in Debian. Is this some sort of purity deal? Is there some legitimate reason support is not included? What is Debian ITP? I have been using and programming for UNIX for 25 years and even with all the wonderful features it still takes pretty much of an expert to get many things running. I have spent almost two full days to get this running. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153457 Title: iguanaIR support not functional -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 178038] Re: npviewer.bin crashed with SIGSEGV
I have the latest version of flash talked about at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/flashplugin- nonfree/10.1.53.64ubuntu0.9.10.1 It was installed with synaptic. and I still get imbedded flash crashes, particularly at eWeek slide shows such as: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/10-Laptop-and-Netbook- Alternatives-to-the-Apple-iPad-553015/?kc=EWKNLSTE06222010MOSTREAD1 It obviously needs to be on one line, but this comment box shows it split. I have uninstalled gnash and any other flash libs, but here is what is in the nsplugin dirs: /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/: dirs.d/ i386/ noarch/ plugins/ x86_64/ /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/dirs.d: flashplugin-installer /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386: linux/ /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/linux: libnoxshm.so libxpcom.so npviewer* npviewer.bin* /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/noarch: npviewer* /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/plugins: npwrapper.nppdf.so* /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/x86_64: linux/ /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/x86_64/linux: npconfig* npplayer* npwrapper.so -- npviewer.bin crashed with SIGSEGV https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178038 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
