On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 03:38 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 18:16 +1030, Tim wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 02:12 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > > > I printed out some plain text documents for my project and then cranked > > > up gimp to print one graphic page for the cover of the Dvd that I am to > > > send. Well, what had been just plain ole working about a week or so ago, > > > started sucking in paper with one line printed saying > > > "%!PS-Adobe-3.0 > > > %%Creator: Print plug-in V4.2.7 - July 2004 for Gimp/Gimp print > > > > > > ... and then proceeded to suck and spit paper out onto the floor. > > > > I've never had the greatest of luck printing through GIMP, I've resorted > > to using other programs to print the graphics, at times. But have you > > gone through the various print options that GIMP presents (including > > which drivers, etc.). It might be GIMP print not CUPS that's at fault. > > That's the helluvit, it worked just a few weeks ago. I managed to get > the thing to print and it looks like pink and greyscale now. Fairly new > cartridge for color. I'm going blind on this, and royally peeved. Maybe > I should take my own advice and just install centOS to get stable. I > like the folks here, and would rather remain, but my project is ramping > up into a semblance of a reality and re-inventing the wheel isn't one of > my strong suites. I'm not a tool builder. I am a user with some modicum > of experience, so I can usually hack and slash my way around. I had > several printer selections using the same printer at different print > resolutions. They're gone. Found a bugzilla on that one. Someone else > with officially a similar problem. It used to work just fine until > someone did something and it is home to roost on my machine. Damnit. Now > it's 3:35 AM on the east coast and I keep hoping I'll fix it. I'm nuts. > I know I'm not supposed to have "expectations of others", but in this > case I do. Just print for me reliably. That's all I need, that and a > good 25 cent cigar. Ric > > > I guess you found out why Fedora is designed to be a "bleeding edge" non-stable release. If you want to continue with FC6 I would disable automatic yum updating, and don't update what seems to work. I had that problem recently with evolution. But selective updating is a pain in the neck with Fedora and many other versions of Linux. You could do a CentOS update and be zapped as well. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
