From 27b70a2349604acf2098354c161e2634c04ac7c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robby Workman Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 23:56:36 -0500 Subject: system/samsung-mfp-drivers: Added README.pdfprinterrors This should help users figure out what to do if the printer has trouble printing PDF files (everything else worked fine for me, and oddly enough, using "lpr" to print the PDF to the same printer also worked fine). Signed-off-by: Robby Workman --- system/samsung-mfp-drivers/README.pdfprinterrors | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ .../samsung-mfp-drivers.SlackBuild | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 system/samsung-mfp-drivers/README.pdfprinterrors (limited to 'system') diff --git a/system/samsung-mfp-drivers/README.pdfprinterrors b/system/samsung-mfp-drivers/README.pdfprinterrors new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..eabe899c1f --- /dev/null +++ b/system/samsung-mfp-drivers/README.pdfprinterrors @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +At some point in the 14.2 development cycle, PDF documents stopped printing +correctly. The printer would attempt to print them, send an error back to +the OS indicating that the job failed, and proceed to print garbage anyway. + +After some debugging, I determined that that it had something to do with +EdgeControl settings. After commenting out the "Fine Edge" lines in the +PPD file, it seems to work fine. For the sake of reference, here's what +that section of my PPD file looks like now: + +*% ================================================================== +*% Fine Edge +*% ================================================================== +*%OpenUI *EdgeControl/Edge Control: PickOne +*%OrderDependency: 15 AnySetup *EdgeControl +*%DefaultEdgeControl: Normal +*%EdgeControl Fine/On: "" +*%EdgeControl Normal/Off: "" +*%CloseUI: *EdgeControl + +Note that adding a "%" after the "*" effectively comments a line. + diff --git a/system/samsung-mfp-drivers/samsung-mfp-drivers.SlackBuild b/system/samsung-mfp-drivers/samsung-mfp-drivers.SlackBuild index 1ac9e7a9e1..30c8ee8bc9 100644 --- a/system/samsung-mfp-drivers/samsung-mfp-drivers.SlackBuild +++ b/system/samsung-mfp-drivers/samsung-mfp-drivers.SlackBuild @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ PRGNAM=samsung-mfp-drivers VERSION=${VERSION:-1.00.36} -BUILD=${BUILD:-1} +BUILD=${BUILD:-2} TAG=${TAG:-_SBo} TARNAM="uld_v${VERSION}_00.91" @@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ find $PKG -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | gr mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION cp -a noarch/license/* $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION +cat $CWD/README.pdfprinterrors > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/README.pdfprinterrors cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild mkdir -p $PKG/install -- cgit v1.2.3