cups-pdf reports 'missing driver' when adding new printer

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄]

Binary package hint: cups-pdf

Installed cups-pdf package on latest karmic, tried to add a new printer using the wizard thing. Got a dialog box at the end telling me:-

"Missing driver"
"Printer 'CUPS-PDF-Printer' requires the '-' program but it is not currently installed. Please install it before using this printer"

The printer gets created but anything I "print" to it disappears and doesn't appear in ~/PDF

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Aug 10 13:03:38 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Lpstat:
 device for CUPS-PDF-Printer: cups-pdf:/
 device for Generic-PostScript-Printer: socket://192.168.129.99:9100
 device for OfficeJet-6300: hp:/net/Officejet_6300_series?ip=192.168.129.199
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: cups-pdf 2.5.0-4
Papersize: a4
PpdFiles:
 Generic-PostScript-Printer: GENICOM microLaser 210
 CUPS-PDF-Printer: Generic CUPS-PDF Printer
 OfficeJet-6300: HP Officejet 6300 Series, hpcups 3.9.8
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic-pae
SourcePackage: cups-pdf
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic-pae i686

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

Alan, of exactly which wizard thing are you talking about?

Note that the CUPS log shows that you tried adding a printer under a user that is not authorized. This means you need to be a member of either the lpadmin group or the root user.

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

System -> Admin -> Printing -> New -> (that wizard)

Click Generic CUPS-PDF Printer -> Forward -> Accept defaults for Printer name, description and location -> Apply

Get the dialog you see in the attachment, click OK.

Click 'Yes' to Would you like to print a test page?

Job 21 submitted.

Get no PDF out.

[NoahY (noahy)]

Same here using Epson Stylus C66

Test Page gives me a nice clean blank page. Printing other things (pdf files) does not work.

[NoahY (noahy)]

Fixed with latest update of the following packages (and others):

cups (1.3.11-1) to 1.3.11-1ubuntu1
cups-bsd (1.3.11-1) to 1.3.11-1ubuntu1
cups-client (1.3.11-1) to 1.3.11-1ubuntu1
cups-common (1.3.11-1) to 1.3.11-1ubuntu1

[NoahY (noahy)]

oops... I've been commenting on the wrong bug. Please cancel everything I've said.

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

Can others confirm whether cups (1.3.11-1ubuntu1) karmic indeed fixes the issue?

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

No, it's not fixed. I still get the issue on an up to date system I just installed cups-pdf on.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

This looks like an upstream bug in system-config-printer. Moving to system-config-printer ...

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

5 bytes added to fix the bug. New package is on its way.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package system-config-printer - 1.1.10+git20090731-0ubuntu3

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system-config-printer (1.1.10+git20090731-0ubuntu3) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/53_do-not-consider-dash-as-executable-name.patch: When
    checking whether the CUPS filter specified in the PPD file is installed,
    do not consider '-' as an executable name. '-' stands for no filter
    (LP: #411376).

 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:32:04 +0200

[Tim Waugh (twaugh)]

I've fixed this slightly differently upstream.