strange cups problem

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 02:25:51PM -0400, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> Parts of a somewhat legal ps preamble imho. It is not sent as binary, it 
> looks like raw ps.
> 
> The culprits so far are acroreader 5 and gimp as well as opeoffice (I 
> tried that once). I expect firefox etc to behave the same.
> 
> Thr print command in mozilla is currently:
> 
> lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}
> 
> which looks wrong to me. MOZ_PRINTER_NAME is (I think) 
> PostScript/SymbolicNameOfPrinter (from env("PRINTER")). The latter seems 
> wrong, as it is not a ps printer. So it should not be qualified as 
> PostScript/... no ?

Hmm, not sure about those variables.  I tend to go with the defaults.

my 'lp' and 'lpr' commands both come from cups and seem to work.

Any /etc/printcap file on your machine?

Lennart Sorensen
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