(FC6+Gnome) Printing disabled in Evince and OOo

[Frode Petersen]

yonas Abraham wrote:
> There were a know bug with the
> same symptom, if the printer is set as raw printer in FC6. If so
> change to the correct PPD file or make the printer a postscript
> printer.

> what type of printer is it, make model connection type, how you
> created the queue?

I'm not shure of what you mean by 'raw printer'. Is it specific to 
postscript setups?

The printer is a HP LaserJet 6L, printing through CUPS, normally with 
the Gutenprint driver, but I also have setups defined with hpijs and 
(for testing) ljet4 drivers. (The last two from the foomatic package.) 
Test pages print as they should.

They were set up through the Fedora menu/System/Administration/Printers 
program (I'm not shure of the correct english name for the utility, but 
it has a Red Hat owned copyright, written by Florian Festi, Tim Waugh)

The strange thing is that this setup has worked for months and just 
recently stopped working. I am not aware of any changes to drivers or 
sybsystem, and I have sole access to admin utils.

That is, while writing this I checked for any .rpmnew files lying 
around, and found two printing related. 
(/usr/share/config/kdeprintrc.rpmnew and 
/usr/share/config/ui/kprintpreviewui.rc.rpmnew) I think these have to do 
with KDE, and as I use Gnome they shouldn't be the cause of the problem. 
I'll check it out anyway just in case.

I noticed another oddity. On the print dialog's second page where the 
page setup is specified, you can specify pages per sheet, duplex, paper 
type, paper source and output tray. These are all greyed out and marked 
as 'not accessible' or 'not available' (I use a different localisation.)

Thanks for the tip, Yonas. There seems to be a bit more road ahead 
before arriving at a solution, but every step helps in getting there.

Frode