HTML image printing does not work (KDE 3.1.0)

[Michael Goffioul]

> What I noticed is that when I try to print any HTML page containing images,
> e.g. an e-mail in KMail with an attachment icon, the page containing the
> image/icon is never printed. When I use the HTML settings in the printing
> dialog and disable "Print images" the page is printed correctly, just
> without the image(s).
> 
> I've had this problem at work and when I tried it today at home I
> discovered that I have the same problem here so I switched CUPS into debug
> mode for a better analysis of the problem. It seems that GNU Ghostscript
> runs into an unrecoverable error, starting with this message:
> 
> "Error: /rangecheck in null" [...]
> "GNU Ghostscript: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1"
> 
> First I thought I should attach both log files to this e-mail (16 KB
> altogether) but then I thought it would be better to ask first. If you
> think the files could be useful please let me know.

What you can try first is to print to a PS file, and then view the
result with a PS viewer (like gv or kghostview), to see if you get
that error too. Which ghostscript and CUPS version are you using?

Michael.

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