On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 05:35:00PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> I'm using a HP LaserJet 1300 printer with Devuan. I used to able to
> print PDFs without a problem. But when I installed the operating
> system on new hardware I could no longer print PDFs.
>
> A two-word PDF prints OK. More complicated PDFs are sent to the queue
> but rather than print simply ñturn on the printer's error LED. The
> printer is using the recommaned Poststcript filter.
>
> In CUPS inteface the printer is seen as:
>
> HP_LaserJet_1320_series
> HP LaserJet 1320 series lenin
> HP LaserJet 1320 series Postscript (recommended)
> Processing - "Use "pdftops-renderer" option (see cups-filters README file)
> to use Ghostscript or MuPDF for the PDF -> PostScript conversion."
>
> I look at /usr/share/doc/cups-filters/README.gz. It seems that to print
> PDFs I must download and compile cups-filters-1-current.tar.gz. This is
> where I got into trouble.
>
> Poppler, freetype, fontconfig, and liblcms (liblcms2 recommended) must
> be installed to be able to compile this package.
>
> I don't have access to a program named "poppler":
>
> i A poppler-data - encoding data for the poppler PDF renderi
> i A poppler-utils - PDF utilities (based on Poppler)
> p python3-poppler-qt5 - Python binding to Poppler-Qt5 C++ library
> i A qpdfview-pdf-poppler-plugin - tabbed document viewer - DjVu plugin
> p ruby-poppler
>
> I do have fontconfig installed and also liblcms2-2 installed.
>
> Because the BZT repository does not contain a prebuilt configure
> script, I must first run autoconfig. This only leads to some undefined
> macro errors. It says please use m4_pattern_allow. Man autoconf says
> nothing about what this means.
>
> Why has printing a PDF become so difficult? This makes no sense to me
I had better luck when I rejected the recommended filter and instead
chose the pcl3 filter. Sorry to waste your time.
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Haines Brown
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