From: Johannes M. <js...@su...> - 2010-09-30 10:00:07
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On Sep 7 11:53 Johannes Meixner wrote (shortened): > On Sep 4 18:31 Robert Krawitz wrote (shortened): >> Johannes Meixner wrote: ... >> The longer I think about the issue the more I tend to simply >> drop my current gutenprint-5.2.6-make_A4_DefaultPageSize.patch ... > ... PPDs are currently only English which is o.k. for now. > I didn't investigate why I don't get globalized-cups-ppds by default. ... >> My suggestion would be for the RPM package to have a post-install that >> runs cups-genppdupdate. > > Good idea! > I will think about it: > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=637455 Only FYI (and perhaps a tiny bug report at the end): Our newest Gutenprint packages for several openSUSE versions are available for 32-bit Intel compatible (i586) and 64-bit AMD (x86_64) for download from the openSUSE development project "Printing" at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Printing/ I removed the useless gutenprint-5.2.6-make_A4_DefaultPageSize.patch so that there is now no longer any patch applied. Additionally cups-genppdupdate is called in RPM's post-install. See "rpm -q --changelog gutenprint". At least for now the PPDs are still only English. Do not use "Factory" if your system is openSUSE 11.3 or older. Use the matching packages for your particular system. The packages are * only for testing * without any guarantee or warranty * without any support As an extreme example, this means that if your complete computer center crashes because of these packages, it is only your problem. On the other hand this does not mean that those packages are known to be terrible broken but they are not thoroughly tested so that any unexpected issue can happen. Perhaps a tiny bug report: I found those PPDs which still have "DefaultPageSize: A4" stp-olympus-p400.5.2.ppd.gz / stp-olympus-p400.5.2.sim.ppd.gz stp-olympus-p440.5.2.ppd.gz / stp-olympus-p440.5.2.sim.ppd.gz The reason is that there is no "*PageSize Letter" entry in those PPDs. I assume those printers can actually also print on letter paper so that it seems the letter paper choice is somewhere missing in the Gutenprint sources for those models. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex |