Cups printing

[x0xCRIZx0x]

For users who have Gentoo installed and are using cups for printing, if attempting to print gives this error (from /var/log/cup/error_log):

Unable to convert file 0 to printable format for job 3!

This means you don't have the necessary filters installed to convert the files. The problem was that esp-ghostscript and ghostscript were separate ebuilds. Since cups require the esp-ghostscripts filters, it could not use these unless you had it installed.

Updating ghostscripts (it is now under one ebuild), should fix this issue.

*  app-text/ghostscript
      Latest version Available: 7.05.3-r1
      Latest version Installed: 7.05.3-r1
      Homepage: http://www.easysw.com/
      Description: ESP Ghostscript -- an enhanced version of GNU Ghostscript
      with better printer support

[JimH]

Sounds like they need to update the dependancies on the cups ebuild.

Jim H

[x0xCRIZx0x]

Yeah, they took care of that by getting rid of eps-ghostscripts and just using ghostscripts.