strange cups problem

[Peter L. Peres]

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> 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.

cups is installed correctly and runs using the lpr, lpq, lprm commands 
(besides the web interface). Anything (ps, image, text) printed using lpr 
from the cli is done right. Nearly everything printed from applications 
comes out raw, in despite of the printer command being set to lpr. There 
is only one lpr in the path. lpd was never installed on htis system.

Peter
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