"This print job requires a PostScript Language Level 2 printer" error message
Bug #240285 reported by
Mike Cebula
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox-3.0, Anything using CUPS seems to fail.
Printer is a Level 1 PostScript printer (IBM 4216-031) and works fine with other apps. The summary contains the error message that prints any time I attempt to use it from Firefox 3.0. Running Ubuntu 8.04 (just installed).
Mike
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jun 15 14:24:19 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~rc1+
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-18-generic i686
Update:
The only application that does work to this printer is OpenOffice. I chose to print its output to a .ps file and saw that it correctly identified the language as level 1 and created the postscript file itself. First few lines of the file follow:
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%BoundingBox: (atend)
%%Creator: (OpenOffice.org 2.4)
%%For: (mike)
%%CreationDate: (Wed Jun 25 22:29:14 2008)
%%Title: (Page243)
%%LanguageLevel: 1
%%DocumentData: Clean7Bit
%%Pages: (atend)
%%PageOrder: Ascend
%%EndComments
%%BeginProlog
%%BeginResource: procset PSPrint-Prolog 1.0 0
/ISO1252Encoding [
I then printed to file from Firefox and discovered that Cairo did the formatting and incorrectly identified the language as level 2. First few lines of the file follow below:
%!PS-Adobe-3.0 cairographics. org)
%%Creator: cairo 1.6.0 (http://
%%CreationDate: Wed Jun 25 22:36:27 2008
%%Pages: 1
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792
%%DocumentData: Clean7Bit
%%LanguageLevel: 2
%%EndComments
%%BeginProlog
/languagelevel where
{ pop languagelevel } { 1 } ifelse
2 lt { /Helvetica findfont 12 scalefont setfont 50 500 moveto
(This print job requires a PostScript Language Level 2 printer.) show
showpage quit } if
/q { gsave } bind def
/Q { grestore } bind def
I got the same failures with printing pdf files or files from a text editor. In each case Cairo was identified as the creator of the failing postscript formated file.
One further point:
I can print to this printer over my home lan using Windows XP from a laptop. Everything works fine from it no matter what source remotely selects the printer.
Hope this helps with identifying a solution.
Mike Cebula