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FS#2592 - xfprint depends on a2ps

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by David Cahill (mctavish) - Sunday, 17 April 2005, 02:24 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Tuesday, 04 December 2007, 18:52 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Kieslich (tobias)
Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Package xfprint should have the dependency a2ps but does not currently.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Tobias Kieslich (tobias)
Tuesday, 04 December 2007, 18:52 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  changed in 4.4.2
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Wednesday, 11 July 2007, 15:30 GMT
re-opened on this request:
Problem has reappeared in xfprint 4.4.1-2 (maybe also in earlier versions).
Comment by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Wednesday, 11 July 2007, 15:54 GMT
http://www.home.unix-ag.org/bmeurer/articles/xfce44-visual-tour.html
Check the printing section:
"Xfprint, the Xfce printing management application, saw several small improvements with this release. First, the a2ps converter is not mandatory anymore, whilst still recommended. Support for CUPS 1.2 was added and Xfprint is now able to display the printer state with the CUPS-backend."
I like to keep the dependencies small and a2ps is not required for printing.
Comment by hurne (hurne) - Wednesday, 11 July 2007, 17:13 GMT
Actually, a2ps *is* needed for printing. Without it you can of course use xfprint as a gui for CUPS configuration, but you can't print in xfce applications like Mousepad (as is mentioned in the paragraph after the one you quoted).

I encountered this bug when I was trying to print a very simple text file from Mousepad. The print dialog crashed with the message "client-error-bad-request". After some searching I found a bug on the Ubuntu bug tracker which described the same problem and said you could resolve it by installing a2ps. After installing it printing worked flawlessly.
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 12 September 2007, 02:55 GMT
I just ran into this problem trying to print from Mousepad to a CUPS configured printer. It is quite annoying because the problem is not obvious doe to the obscure error message

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