Re: [Tuxpaint-users] Tuxpaint and printing

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 09:08:05AM +0200, api...@t-... wrote:
> Help,
> Configured tuxpaintrc in home directory and every configuration change 
> in this file seems to function correctly when changed. e.g. Sound/no 
> sound  Quit/No Quit etc.
> However when I try to print the program crashes or just closes. I have 
> tried various configurations in the tuxpaintrc file with printing, I 
> receive however constantly the same error:
> 
> sh: pngtopnm: command not found
> sh: pnmtops: command not found
> lpr: error - stdin is empty, so no job has been sent.

Hi! Sorry for the crash! :^(

The last stable release of Tux Paint (0.9.14) still, I believe, depended
on the "NetPBM" tools for printing.  (Well, at least, that's what it
defaulted to... I suppose ImageMagick's "convert" might work as well,
perhaps together with some other PostScript-generating programs.
Or maybe if your print system is set up to 'magic'ally convert PNG data
when printing, a plain "lpr" command would suffice.)

So, the easiest solution would be to install NetPBM, so that you get
"pngtopnm" and "pnmtops" tools.  Otherwise, we can figure out an alternative
way to get the PNG data out of Tux Paint and onto a piece of paper. :^)

Thanks, and sorry for the trouble!  (The upcoming version of Tux Paint will
be able to generate PostScript interally, thus removing the NetPBM-or-similar
requirements.)

-- 
-bill!
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