Major 2.18 Issues... [Cannot print using CUPS printer in 2.18]

[Frank Jahnke]

On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 01:22 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> > 
> > Thanks for trying to reproduce this problem. I wouldn't be surprised if
> > it was a problem with my setup, however since it seemed I was the seond
> > person to have this problem I thought I would chime in.

Agreed.

> > 
> > > Try rebuilding libgnomeprint and gtk20 will WITH_CUPS="yes"
> > > in /etc/make.conf, and see if it helps.
> > > 
> > I already had WITH_CUPS="yes" in my /etc/make.conf. The contents of the
> > file are as below.

[snip]

The setting are pretty similar to what I use, but I have a few more
daemons started for Gnome.

> > Other notes:
> > 1) I can sucessfully print a test page from the CUPS web interface
> > ( http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:631/ )
> > 2) I can successfully print from Openoffice, including choosing printer
> > and paper type (A3,A4 etc)
> > 
> > This leads me to believe the CUPS setup itself is not the problem.

Me too.
> > 
> > 3) I cannot print a test page from the Gnome cups manager because it
> > sets the paper to Letter size (when sending a document to the printer,
> > and the option to change paper size is blank (we use A4 in Japan and
> > there is no Letter size in the printer. There is however A3 size
> > available in the printer). The PPD file has the defaults set to A4 and
> > nowhere mentions Letter size. In fact, I can't choose the paper size
> > from any Gnome application except Openoffice.

Me too.  You would think that being able to set the paper size would be
easy to do from Gnome, but no...

I sometimes have the reverse problem: the ppd assumes A4, and I have
letter only. That freezes the printer.