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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Q&A Forum => Topic started by: floppy on August 28, 2011, 11:24:28 AM
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hello,
I installed cups-pdf and made the virtual printer setup.
I tried to make a print: by choosing the printer, an error appear, and no pdf is printed.
has somebody an idea what is going on here?
screenshot with the error message
in leafpad http://imagebin.org/170008 (http://imagebin.org/170008)
and in cups browser http://imagebin.org/170009 (http://imagebin.org/170009)
Complement 11.09.2011: by trying to print out of leafpad, the print job stop with the error "empty print file!"
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Just to double-check, you are using cups-pdf with cups and not cups-pdf with cups1311?
Could you try to print from a terminal window using "lpr /path-to-file/filename" and copy/paste the errors you get.
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Just to double-check, you are using cups-pdf with cups and not cups-pdf with cups1311?
I am loading cups-pdf. Then with the dep, I suppose cups is automatically loaded.
(for your other advice, I will try when I have a bit more time).
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"lpr file.txt" bring the message
lpr: Error - no default destination available.
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You need to either set the printer as the default (one way to do this is to use the cups browser interface), or:
$ lpr -P printer_name file_name
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I made a "lpr -P Virtual_PDF_Printer file.txt", then
no errors happens.
the job in the cups-browser show has a state "completed" which is new (before, by printing out of leafpad it had the status "stopped, empty print file!").
I was searching the pdf file in home/temp: nothing is there.
(I modified cups-pdf.conf from "Out /var/spool/cups-pdf/${USER}" in "Out ${HOME}/temp" so, I was expecting to see the file in /home/tmp).
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(I modified cups-pdf.conf from "Out /var/spool/cups-pdf/${USER}" in "Out ${HOME}/temp" so, I was expecting to see the file in /home/tmp).
It would appear in /home/tc/tmp, no? Is the file file.txt or file.pdf or file.txt.pdf anywhere under /var or /home?
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I dont find the pdf anywhere (with the lpr command; despite no error appear). curious.
printing out of leafpad show the identical error (empty file).
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Does printing work on the same machine to an actual printer?
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I never tried with TCL. I will (need few days) with an HP 4110 allinone (USB connection).
It worked before with Win98.
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Hi:
I am getting the same error in Leafpad on all of my PCs:
"no default destination....."
after setting the printer as default this message disappered. I never was able to show a
print preview on screen from Leafpad. Although a preview worked with Abiword.
Some printer installations print via Leafpad others do not.
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Note that you'll most probably need hplip + cups for that..
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I thought hplip is only required for HP printers?
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Correct - there was an HP 4110 allinone mentioned..
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hello Juanito,
no printing is possible (either pdf.. nor hp4110) from opera or from leafpad.
the lpr - P ..PDF command seems to work (status "completed") but no pdf file was created.
See different errors in the screenshot.
http://imagebin.org/172327 (http://imagebin.org/172327)
so.. I'm in the dark..
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cups, cups-pdf and hplip all work for me "straight out of the box", so I'm guessing something is missing somewhere.
What does this give: $ ldd /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster
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as i mentioned i have a similar problem:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,11016.0.html (http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,11016.0.html)
but it depends what program wants to use cups,
some print fine, others "print empty pages".
$ ldd /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster
i get::
tc@box:~$ ldd /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster
/usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster: invalid ELF header
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tc@box:~$ ldd /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster
/usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster: invalid ELF header
Sorry, pstoraster is a script, not an app - I'm out of ideas as to why it doesn't work for you.
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as i mentioned i have a similar problem:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,11016.0.html (http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,11016.0.html)
but it depends what program wants to use cups,
some print fine, others "print empty pages".
$ ldd /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster
i get::
tc@box:~$ ldd /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster
/usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster: invalid ELF header
me too.. ldd /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster
/usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster: invalid ELF header
Complement: I am starting cups with a script after boot, anytime during a session (not on demand; not at boot).
Name: quickprint.sh
Content:
tce-load -i /mnt/hda2/tce/optional/cups-pdf.tcz
tce-load -i /mnt/hda2/tce/optional/hplip-2.7.tcz
sudo /usr/local/etc/init.d/cups start
In my .filetool.lst I have
...
/usr/local/etc/cups/ppd (with virtual_pdf and hp4100..PPD .. in it)
/usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf
/usr/local/etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf
/etc/shadow
...
and:
printers.conf is empty. Perhaps I should delete it from .filetool.lst?
cups-pdf.conf is the original file ( I did not modify anything today.. perhaps again the OUT parameter later when pdf printing is running).
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me too.. ldd /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster
/usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster: invalid ELF header
Again, that was my mistake - ldd is for apps/libs and not scripts - pstoraster is a script.
Since the hp4110 is supported by hplip, I'm guessing you're missing an extension or you didn't select the cups driver (as opposed to user supplied ppd) during the "add printer" dialogue with the cups browser interface.
After setting the log level to debug in cupsd.conf and restarting cups, does the error log show anything useful?
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What dio you mean this is a script?
should I do "sh /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster.sh" in a terminal ?
I will check your new suggestions when I am at my desktop.
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Hi floppy
A script is like a batch file.
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Here's what I get:
$ lpr -P Virtual_PDF_Printer cairo.tcz.info
$ ls -l /var/spool/cups-pdf/tc
total 12
-rw------- 1 tc staff 9005 Sep 16 10:28 cairo_tcz_info.pdf
and: $ /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster
INFO: Starting GPL Ghostscript 9.00...
DEBUG: Running /usr/local/bin/gs -dQUIET -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dNOMEDIAATTRS -sDEVICE=cups -sstdout=%stderr -sOUTPUTFILE=%stdout -c -f -_
INFO: Start rendering...
INFO: Processing page 1..... I guess it stops at this point since it has no data to work on
Edit: These extensions are loaded: ghostscript, ghostscript_common, hplip-2.7, cups, cups-pdf, libcups, libusb
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I have load cups-pdf in tc 4.0.2 and don't work without the ghostscript_common.tcz extension loaded, so I think is necessary to put this extension in the dep file of cups-pdf.tcz.
Without this extension gives the "empty file" error.
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One of the many "issues" I've found with cups is knowing which deps go with which of the many different ways of printing using cups - locally, as a network client, hplip, gutenprint, custom OEM ppd, etc, etc
I probably needed ghostscript_common for some other reason and so didn't see this dep - added
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i can confirm that cups-pdf is working,
but i succeeded only to a fullworking cups-environment with my own dep-file.
i packaged a cups_meta with following deps:
foomatic-rip.tcz
ghostscript_common.tcz
ghostscript.tcz
gutenprint.tcz
cups.tcz
cups-pdf.tcz
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..which illustrates the point:
I don't need foomatic-rip nor gutenprint
but I do need hplip-2.7
..and from a client pc printing over the network, I need only cups
:)
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And for what I intend, the client won't even need cups, only busybox :P (OT sorry)