[Users] E-Mail Printing under FreeBSD

Jerry jerry at seibercom.net
Fri Dec 7 17:07:38 CET 2012


On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 16:27:28 +0100
Olive articulated:

> The lpr oprions sends by default a Postscript file while the direct
> print send a PDF (if the behaviour is the same as in the recent
> version of GNU/Linux). I have had problem with pdf printing too. First
> try to print with your printer switched off; then go
> to /var/spool/cups and find the generated file (it should be a pdf)
> and cancel the print. Copy this file out of the directory and try to
> print it to see what happens. You can try also to put cups in debug
> mode to see exactly what command are called or try to force CUPS to
> use the Postscript backend (the files to edit are the *.convs file).

Sorry, no such file. a file named: "0b78350cd4ffe" was created in the
"/var/spool/cups/tmp" directory though.

-- 
Jerry ♔

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