Problem parsing ppd file

Christian Forster boronk at boronk.de
Sat Feb 21 14:51:54 CET 2004


I have upgraded form kde 3.1.4 to 3.2 using konstruct two weeks ago. I 
am using a Minolta Magicolor 2350 Laserprinter with cups. The ppd file 
is from Minolta and seems to be ok:

guru at donut:~> 
cupstestppd /thoregon/opt/cups/share/cups/model/mq2350np2.ppd 
/thoregon/opt/cups/share/cups/model/mq2350np2.ppd: PASS
        WARN    ICCRGBSource shares a common prefix with 
ICCRGBSourceGraphics
                REF: Page 15, section 3.2.


this worked quite fine with kde 3.1.4 i could change my settings in 
kprinter ( driver dettings )

Now, with kde 3.2, built with konstruct, the driver seetings tab 
disappeared and kprinter has the following output.

guru at donut:~> kprinter
kdeprint: stdin is a terminal, disabling it
kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0xbfffe5c4, number of objects = 1
kdeprint: 
kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x8117bcc, number of objects = 2
kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x8134140, number of objects = 3
kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x814ef10, number of objects = 4
kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x813dc6c, number of objects = 5
kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x8157d48, number of objects = 6
kio (KSycoca): Trying to open ksycoca 
from /var/tmp/kdecache-guru/ksycoca
kdeprint: Checking for update possible
kdeprint: Starting async connect
kdeprint: Connection success, trying to send a request...
kio (Filter): KFilterBase::findFilterByFileName mime=text/plain
kio (KTrader): KServiceTypeProfile::offers( KDECompressionFilter, )
kio (KTrader): Returning 2 offers
kio (Filter): KFilterBase::findFilterByMimeType(text/plain) got 0 offers
kprinter: WARNING: KFilterBase::findFilterByExtension : no filter found 
for text/plain
kdeprint: WARNING: PPD syntax error, PPD parse failed
kdeprint: kdeprint: unregistering 0x8117bcc, number of objects = 5
kdeprint: kdeprint: unregistering 0x8157d48, number of objects = 4
kdeprint: kdeprint: unregistering 0x813dc6c, number of objects = 3
kdeprint: kdeprint: unregistering 0xbfffe5c4, number of objects = 2
kdecore (KLibLoader): The KLibLoader contains the library kdeprint_cups 
(0x8115508)

So now, I think, something is broken with the PPD parser...

May anybody help?

Christian

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