Missing/corrupt PPD files?

[Jason Ahrens]

I have changed every line ending with 'None/0.000:' to 'None/0.000: ""'. I 
restarted CUPS for good measure.

I still see no differences though. To be sure, I deleted and added the printer 
again, however I still do not get the properties tab that allows me to select 
colour/BW or resolution at print time. During the printer add, I still got 
the error that KDE was unable to load the requested driver. Exact error:

'Unable to load the requested driver:'

However the printer does get created and I can print to it using 'default' 
settings. Using KDE to delete and add the printer as new erases my 'modified' 
PPD file and does not replace it in the /etc/cups/ppd directory. I have not 
yet figured out where KDE put it, however now the CUPS administrator reports 
a client-error when I attempt to configure (resoution, etc..). It seems to 
only work if I add the printer via CUPS and let KDE auto-discover it. The end 
result to KDE is identical, but I can change the resolution and such from the 
CUPS administrator then.

It may be interesting to note then that when I used foomatic to make a PPD 
file originally, I had the same issue (printable to, but could not 
configure). It seems I have to create the printer with CUPS to get any 
control over resolution and such.

Jason



On April 20, 2004 02:32, Goffioul Michael wrote:
> > On April 19, 2004 08:52, Goffioul Michael wrote:
> > > See my response to this problem:
> > > http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-print&m=108237910820800&w=2
> > > it might be the same. If it's not, could you as well post your
> > > PPD file (compressed), such that I can have a look.
> >
> > I took a look. I found many lines like this, which I'm not
> > sure is the same
> > thing:
> > *StpFineLightYellowTransition None/0.000:
>
> For these lines, add "" at the end. It should be present. Adobe
> specifications tells me a NoValue (empty value) is only possible
> when there's no option keyword, which is not the case here. Anyway,
> adding this empty string should solve the parsing problem of
> KDEPrint.
>
> > There's 19 lines in this PPD that has the None/0.000 string.
> > This is the PPD
> > file that CUPS uses. Is this also the PPD file that KDE will use?
>
> Yes. KDE doesn't have its own PPD files, it gets them from CUPS
> directly.
>
> Michael.
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