On 5/7/06, Marc Schwartz <MSchwartz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 15:24 +0100, Gavin Simpson wrote: > On 5/7/06, Marc Schwartz <MSchwartz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Gavin, > > Thanks Marc > > > I have not seen anything definitive, however a Google search led me to a > > SuSE list where the following thread may be of help: > > > > http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Jan/0343.html > > > > Thus, you may want to look at 'man lpoptions' to consider creating a > > ~/.lpoptions file. > > Tried this out - I had an .lpoptions file on the problem desktop. You might want to delete or rename this file to ascertain the possibility that one or more local settings are causing a default mis-configuration for your user profile. Also check /etc/cups/lpoptions to what is set for system level settings. > Added media=A4. This didn't seem to do anything to help though - US > Letter still default in evince. I didn't see anything related in > bugzilla to do with printing or paper size. As this machine is in work > and I'm at home just now, I've been running stuff via a SSH session > with X forwarding. When testing if the .lpoptions addition worked, I > tried to print a pdf in evince. As this was running from a shell I > noticed the following messages: > > GnomePrintCupsPlugin-Message: The ppd file for the CUPS printer > HPColourLaserJ could not be loaded. > GnomePrintCupsPlugin-Message: The ppd file for the CUPS printer > HPLaserJ could not be loaded. > > So may be this has something to do with it? Perhaps. I am not sure what additional interactions might come into play when using SSH. What conflicts might be present between your work computer and your home computer in this modality. I would first get your work computer running correctly (if possible) before trying this over a SSH connection. Parsimony... :-) > > Not sure why this would be required, as gnome-print/CUPS aware > > applications should be picking up the default configuration, unless they > > have application specific settings, which Evo and Evince do not seem to > > have from what I can tell. > > > > One other thing to consider would be to delete and re-define your > > printers, in case something got messed up there. > > Given the above messages, I'll try this when in work on Monday. Agreed. > > Beyond this, I would have to defer to others relative to what might be > > happening here, including the possibility of an FC5 bug of sorts. You > > might want to do a search of bugzilla.redhat.com to see if perhaps > > something has been posted there that might be relevant. > Many thanks for your suggestions Marc. Much appreciated, Happy to help. Hopefully it leads in the direction of resolution. Regards, Marc
Hi Marc, Got into work and played a little, and I think I'm getting closer to the problem now. Running evince from the command line for example yields the following errors when opening the print dialog: Model not found, discarding config GnomePrintCupsPlugin-Message: The ppd file for the CUPS printer HPColourLaserJ could not be loaded. GnomePrintCupsPlugin-Message: The ppd file for the CUPS printer HPLaserJ could not be loaded. And the dialogue chooses US LETTER. Now, if I close the print dialog and then open it again, I don't get a second set of warnings about not being able to open the ppd files for my printers, and now, micraulously the default paper is A4. So I assume something is going wrong in finding the defaults at first, but which works the second time round. This happens with and without /etc/cups/lpoptions and .lpoptions. A similar thing happens with Evolution, except it never gets the paper correct on second opening of the print dialog - same messages from GnomePrintCupsPlugin though. So I guess this is a bug and will complete a bug report for it in FC5 Bugzilla. Many thanks, G
