strange cups problem

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 09:44:50PM -0400, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> I am relatively new to cups and I have a small problem: I can print 
> anything (text, graphics, ps, anything) from command line using lpr ... 
> but many programs (like firefox, acrobat, gimp etc) print raw ps files. 
> How do I fix this ? I have PRINTER set to the name of the cups printer in 
> the environment (not the name of the device, but the symbolic name of the 
> printer in cups). The system is debian based.
> 
> any ideas are welcome, tia,

Never had a problem like that.  You sure you have the right printer
model selected?

Do you have both lp and lpr (from cups)?  Some programs prefer one, some
the other.

Is a2ps installed?  Not that it would make sense since it is converting
PS to raster that's likely your desire.

Lennart Sorensen
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