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Re: [Gimp-print-devel] 5.3 snapshot for Mac?
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From: Matt B. <wal...@ma...> - 2019-07-22 19:05:53
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<html><head></head><body dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 22, 2019, at 1:05 PM, Matthew Broughton <<a href="mailto:mab...@fa..." class="">mab...@fa...</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">On Jul 22, 2019, at 12:54 PM, Robert Krawitz <<a href="mailto:rl...@al..." class="">rl...@al...</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 12:52:09 -0500, Matthew Broughton wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Jul 15, 2019, at 9:05 PM, Steve Letter via Gimp-print-devel <<a href="mailto:gim...@li..." class="">gim...@li...</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">All, I still don't have 100% confidence, I know I still have parts of the build to look at. (libgutenprint.9.dylib for example) However, I was able to print with the build I put up here:<br class=""><br class=""> gutenprint-5.3.2-pre1.dmg <<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/files/snapshots/gutenprint-5.3.2-pre1.dmg/download" class="">https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/files/snapshots/gutenprint-5.3.2-pre1.dmg/download</a>><br class=""><br class="">Gutenprint - Top Quality Printer Drivers ...<br class="">Your download will start shortly...<br class=""><<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/files/snapshots/gutenprint-5.3.2-pre1.dmg/download" class="">https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/files/snapshots/gutenprint-5.3.2-pre1.dmg/download</a>><br class=""><br class="">My printer is technically not a supported printer so I need more folks to test that it is operating properly. In tech terms, my build is still a bit wonky.<br class=""><br class="">Steve Letter<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I will confirm that I, too, was able to print with the gutenprint-5.3.2-pre1.dmg. I still want to look at a CUPS error log to see if there is any that stands out there.<br class=""><br class="">I did find a fault with the installer. I will not update existing PPDs. The installer log says:<br class=""><br class="">Jul 22 10:54:51 Borodin installd[1116]: ./postinstall: Updating Gutenprint printer queues...<br class="">Jul 22 10:54:51 Borodin installd[1116]: ./postinstall: Skipping /private/etc/cups/ppd/WorkForce_1100_GP.ppd: mismatched file versions (old 5.2, new 5.3); will not update without -x!<br class="">Jul 22 10:54:51 Borodin installd[1116]: ./postinstall: Did not update any PPD files<br class="">Jul 22 10:54:51 Borodin installd[1116]: PackageKit: Writing receipt for org.gutenprint.printer-driver to /<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">*****************<br class="">I added a new printer using Printers & Scanners. The driver for Gutenprint was very strange:<br class=""><br class="">"5.3.2-pre1-2019-06-16T01-00-e55733ff"<br class=""><br class="">After I added the new printer, I ran the cups-genppdupdate manually using `sudo`. It was able to update the new printer but still could not handle the old 5.2.14.x PPD<br class=""><br class="">matt$ sudo /Library/Printers/Gutenprint.printerDriver/Contents/MacOS/cups-genppdupdate<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">Password:<br class="">Updated /private/etc/cups/ppd/WF1100_53_1.ppd using <a href="gutenprint.5.3://escp2-wf1100/expert" class="">gutenprint.5.3://escp2-wf1100/expert</a><br class="">Skipping /private/etc/cups/ppd/WorkForce_1100_GP.ppd: mismatched file versions (old 5.2, new 5.3); will not update without -x!<br class="">Updated 1 PPD file, 11 skipped. Restart cupsd for the changes to take effect.<br class=""><br class="">I have never encountered `-x!`<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">This was discussed a while back. This is to allow people to continue<br class="">to run 5.3 alongside 5.2. It doesn't matter for the Mac, so you<br class="">should always use -x.<br class="">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">Robert Krawitz <<a href="mailto:rl...@al..." class="">rl...@al...</a>><br class=""></blockquote><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I do remember part of that discussion. I just used `cups-genppdupdate -x` manually and everything is fine. It would seem that this would be a simple fix for the Mac installer. Just use `cups-genppdupdate -x` in the post install script. I will leave the implementation to you and Steve.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Matt</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>That still leaves the problem (?) of the PPD File version "5.3.2-pre1-2019-06-16T01-00-e55733ff"</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br class=""></div></body></html> |
