10.4 and printing pdf from document viewer

[Dave McCarty]

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I needed to print out a pdf document today and 4 hours later managed to
print it --- using adobe reader in my virtual xp machine.

Everytime I tried top print it with Ubuntu 10.4 either AMD64 or the 32
bit OS I would get the message "/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftoraster failed"

I was using an epson cx6000 printer and tried from my desktop running
64bit, my netbook running 64bit and mt wife's laptop running 32 bit
Ubuntu. Each machine was recently updated and on the netbook I had
uninstalled cups and reinstalled it to see of that would help.

Googling the issue showed it was a known issue but the notes seemed to
say it was closed and fixed with an update to ghostwriter. I could not
find any details on how to accomplish this and since the document needed
to be in the mail I succumbed to using XP to get the job done.

This issue does not seem to be printer dependent. Have any of you
printed any pdf files since the upgrade and if so did you have this
issue? I would like to find the fix but I'm stymied right now.

Dave
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[Anthony Nelson]

I just tested this and had no issues. I'm on 32 bit.

[Eric Wanchic]

I'm on a 64-bit machine, Printed to a Savin, HP, and a Brother using
Document Viewer 2.30.3. No Problems. I have an Epson at home, but I'm
sure there are no problems there either.

Eric

[Corey Scherr]

I have to laser printers at home a brother and an OKI and i can print to
both printer from the command line and any other program that i have
tried. I did before installing testing these to printers on my 64 bit
Ubuntu 10.04 machine setup the necessary stuff to be able to have it act
as a print server.

Corey

[Dave McCarty]

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So far I'm the only one with this issue! I'll try linuxprint and see if
there is a better driver for the Epson CX6000.

I'm having issues with all of my printers since the upgrade to 10.4.
Maybe because other than the epson they are all antiques. I have a
Cannon BJ-30 which I keep around just because it is so portable, a
slightly larger but still portable HP-340c with sheet feeder, and a
Canon BJC-240. I have always been able to use them with my linux
machines. I have a lpt to USB cable so I can connect to my laptop and
netbook.

Since the upgrade I cannot even get my machines to see the BJ-30. They
will recognize the HP but when I try to print a a test page it goes to
processing and stalls at 35% eveytime. The BJC-240 shows up as an option
but fails to print with the following from troubleshooting -"Unable to
write 8192 bytes to printer!'. I have attached the diagnostic output
which came after this message:
Sorry! There is no obvious solution to this problem. Your answers have
been collected together with other useful information.

This is not urgent since I can print using the Epson (as long as it is
not a PDF file) but if anyone can point me towards a solution or even a
reason why none of these printers will work. I would appreciate it.

Dave M

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[Eric Wanchic]

I have an Epson Color Stylus R320, I wonder how it would fair with it?

Eric

[Eric Wanchic]

Just an update, I printed a PDF out on my epson printer using adobe
reader. I'm sure other programs will work as well, for me that is.

ERic

On 08/03/2010 01:16 PM, Dave McCarty wrote:

[Dan Falconer]

Just for confirmation from those of you that tried: all printing attempts were with PDF's, right?

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Best Regards,


Dan Falconer
http://www.CrazedSanity.com || http://www.Buzzkill.org

[Corey Scherr]

That is correct.

[Corey Scherr]

That is correct.

On 8/4/2010 9:36 AM, Dan Falconer wrote:

[Robert Hart]

Do you have ghostscript-cups installed?

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave McCarty <davesp...@yahoo.com>
Reply-to: bism...@googlegroups.com
To: bism...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [BisManLUG] 10.4 and printing pdf from document viewer
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:08:56 -0500

/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftoraster

[Eric Wanchic]

For My work machine:
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii ghostscript 8.71.dfsg.1-0u The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
interpret
ii ghostscript-cu 8.71.dfsg.1-0u The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
interpret
un ghostscript-fo <none> (no description available)
ii ghostscript-x 8.71.dfsg.1-0u The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
interpret
un ghostview <none> (no description available)

Eric

[Eric Wanchic]

In addition, I did find the Epson Stylus CX6000 for Cups+Gutenprint
v5.2.5, both Simplified and reguler

Eric

[Eric Wanchic]

Ok, to recap one more time:

||/ Name Version
Description
+++-===============================-===============================-==============================================================================
ii ghostscript 8.71.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.2 The
GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF interpreter
ii ghostscript-cups 8.71.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.2 The
GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF interpreter - CUPS filters
un ghostscript-fonts <none> (no description
available)
ii ghostscript-x 8.71.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.2 The
GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF interpreter - X Display support

un ghostview <none> (no description available)

ii cups-driver-gutenprint 5.2.5-0ubuntu1
printer drivers for CUPS
ii cupsys-driver-gutenprint 5.2.5-0ubuntu1
Transitional package
un foomatic-db-gutenprint <none> (no
description available)
un gutenprint-doc <none> (no description
available)
un gutenprint-locales <none> (no description
available)
ii libgutenprint2 5.2.5-0ubuntu1
runtime for the Gutenprint printer driver library
ii bluez-cups 4.60-0ubuntu8
Bluetooth printer driver for CUPS
ii cups 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2
Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server
ii cups-bsd 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2
Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD commands
ii cups-client 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2
Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client programs (SysV)
ii cups-common 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2
Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - common files
ii cups-driver-gutenprint 5.2.5-0ubuntu1
printer drivers for CUPS
un cups-pdf <none> (no description available)
ii cups-ppdc 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2
Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - PPD manipulation utilities
un cups-pt <none> (no description available)
ii cupsddk 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2
Common UNIX Printing System (transitional package)
un cupsddk-drivers <none> (no description
available)
un cupsomatic-ppd <none> (no description
available)
ii cupsys 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2
Common UNIX Printing System (transitional package)
ii cupsys-bsd 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2
Common UNIX Printing System (transitional package)
ii cupsys-client 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2
Common UNIX Printing System (transitional package)
ii cupsys-common 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2
Common UNIX Printing System (transitional package)
ii cupsys-driver-gutenprint 5.2.5-0ubuntu1
Transitional package
ii ghostscript-cups 8.71.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.2 The
GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF interpreter - CUPS filters
ii hal-cups-utils 1.2.0+20100408-0ubuntu5.2 CUPS
integration with HAL
un hplip-cups <none> (no description available)
ii libcups2 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2
Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - Core library
ii libcupscgi1 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2
Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - CGI library
ii libcupsdriver1 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2
Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - Driver library
ii libcupsimage2 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2
Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - Raster image library
ii libcupsmime1 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2
Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - MIME library
ii libcupsppdc1 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2
Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - PPD manipulation library
un libcupsys2 <none> (no description available)
ii libgnomecups1.0-1 0.2.3-3build2
GNOME library for CUPS interaction
ii python-cups 1.9.49-0ubuntu1
Python bindings for CUPS
ii python-cupshelpers 1.2.0+20100408-0ubuntu5.2
Python modules for printer configuration with CUPS
un python2.6-cups <none> (no description
available)

[Robert Hart]

ghostscript-cups is the package that maintains the
file /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftoraster - which is the file referenced in
Dave's error message. I suspect that the package is not there or needs
reinstalling.