Thanks for reply. I should have mentioned yesterday that applications unrelated to KDE print perfectly routinely, e.g. Firefox. Thus, while I use kate for much drafting, I have to use gedit for printing.
The print system is the standard CUPS as installed by Kubuntu 8.10 on 2008-10-29. br...@xenophon:~$ dpkg -l | grep cups ii bluez-cups 4.12-0ubuntu5 Bluetooth printer driver for CUPS ii cups 1.3.9-2ubuntu4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server ii cups-bsd 1.3.9-2ubuntu4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD commands ii cups-client 1.3.9-2ubuntu4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client programs (SysV) ii cups-common 1.3.9-2ubuntu4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - common files ii cups-driver-gutenprint 5.2.0~rc1-0ubuntu1 printer drivers for CUPS ii cups-pdf 2.4.8-1ubuntu1 PDF printer for CUPS ii cupsddk 1.2.3-3 CUPS Driver Development Kit ii cupsddk-drivers 1.2.3-3 CUPS Driver Development Kit - Driver files ii cupsys 1.3.9-2ubuntu4 Common UNIX Printing System (transitional package) ii cupsys-bsd 1.3.9-2ubuntu4 Common UNIX Printing System (transitional package) ii cupsys-client 1.3.9-2ubuntu4 Common UNIX Printing System (transitional package) ii cupsys-common 1.3.9-2ubuntu4 Common UNIX Printing System (transitional package) ii cupsys-driver-gutenprint 5.2.0~rc1-0ubuntu1 Transitional package ii hal-cups-utils 0.6.17+git20080728-0ubuntu2 CUPS integration with HAL ii libcups2 1.3.9-2ubuntu4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - libs ii libcupsimage2 1.3.9-2ubuntu4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - image libs ii libcupsys2 1.3.9-2ubuntu4 Common UNIX Printing System (transitional package) ii libgnomecups1.0-1 0.2.3-2build1 GNOME library for CUPS interaction ii python-cups 1.9.41-0ubuntu1 Python bindings for CUPS ii python-cupshelpers 1.0.5+git20080819-0ubuntu6 Python modules for printer configuration with CUPS br...@xenophon:~$ -- All printing from KDE4 broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284730 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