Where to find foomatic-filters-ppds?

Josef Wolf jw at raven.inka.de
Tue Apr 29 20:43:17 UTC 2008


On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 04:34:26AM -0700, Francis Earl wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 23:51 +0200, Josef Wolf wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 02:00:14PM -0700, Francis Earl wrote:
> > > The package you require are looking for is foomatic-filters, however,
> > > given that it is an HP printer, I think hplip should work fine - it is
> > > provided and maintained by HP themselves... 
> > > 
> > > Both of these are installed by default however, so I'm not sure what the
> > > issue might be there...
> > 
> > Thanks for the answer, Francis.  Unfortunately, I don't get it:
> > neither foomatic-filters nor hplip contains any ppd files.
> 
> I believe they were all moved to 'openprinting.org-ppds' - which could
> potentially have caused the issues you're experiencing.

It is openprinting-ppds.  With HP_Laserjet_4.ppd from this package, I get
much better results.  But the field to select the paper type is grayed
out and "Letter" is selected by default.  Again, with suse's
HP_Laserjet_4.ppd, I can select "A4" paper size.





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