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Dieter

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-13

Posts: 142

Problem with printing more than one page (ghostscript broken?)

Hello,

since one of the last package updates I have problems with printing more than one page. The print problems occurs as well with pdf files as well with printing websites. I use an actual KDE system with commercial turboprint printer driver. The first page always prints fine, but all consecutive pages are corrupted.  As from a similar problem some months ago, I assume a broken ghostscript package. I tried to downgrade ghostscript to check that, but I get depency problems:

root@arch32 dieter]# ls -l /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ghostscript-*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  9906288 21. Mär 2010  /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ghostscript-8.71-3-i686.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11402624  8. Okt 22:44 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ghostscript-9.00-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
[root@arch32 dieter]# pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ghostscript-8.71-3-i686.pkg.tar.xz
Löse Abhängigkeiten auf...
Suche nach Zwischen-Konflikten...
Fehler: Konnte den Vorgang (Kann Abhängigkeiten nicht erfüllen) nicht vorbereiten
:: libspectre: benötigt ghostscript>=9.00
[root@arch32 dieter]#

Anyone else having printing problems or a solution for my problem?
Thanks, Dieter

hokasch

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Registered: 2007-09-23

Posts: 1,461

Re: Problem with printing more than one page (ghostscript broken?)

That's rather verbose - libspectre needs ghostscript 9.00 or newer, so if you want to downgrade ghostscript, you will to have downgrade libspectre as well (and so on, eventually).

djgera

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From: Buenos Aires - Argentina

Registered: 2008-12-24

Posts: 723

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Re: Problem with printing more than one page (ghostscript broken?)

See https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21388

skanky

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From: WAIS

Registered: 2009-10-23

Posts: 1,847

Re: Problem with printing more than one page (ghostscript broken?)

This may not be related but I had a problem printing a pdf today whereby the second page got corrupted. The same pdf had printed fine several months ago. I realised that (long story) for some reason I had switched drivers (HP printer) from hpijs to hpcups. I installed the printer again as a "new" printer using the hpijs driver and it printed properly this time.

So it may be that the bug causes issues with some drivers. You could try an alternative driver for the printer as temporary workaround?

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Dieter

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-13

Posts: 142

Re: Problem with printing more than one page (ghostscript broken?)

Well, it's really ghostscript 9.00 which is broken. I feared that downgrading depending libspectre will cause other depencies, but downgrading libspectre and ghostscript fixes the printing problem here. I know how to prevent these packages from coming updates.

Thanks for your quick help!
Dieter