[Gambas-user] Trouble printing from "Printing Example"

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 09/06/2015 16:29, Martin McGlensey a écrit :
> Good Morning,
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> I'm running Linux Mint 17.1 and Gambas 3.7.1. My printer is a Canon
> Image-Class MF4150 connected through Samba to a PC running Windows 8. I have
> installed the driver provided by Canon for Linux. Prior to running the Print
> Example all worked with no problem. I was able to print a printer test page
> and a file. The print queue emptied as it should.
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> I ran the print example in the debugger. Selected the print button to print
> the file "Molly Malone". The printer dialog opened and the document was sent
> to the queue. OK so far. The document never printed and it showed
> "processing" in the queue. After four to five minutes the document still had
> not printed.  Other documents were behind waiting to be printed. Deleting
> the stuck job did not release the other jobs. Rebooting did not help. No
> other document, from any app, would not print. Had to delete and reinstall
> the printer to get it to print again. Verified that the print example app
> was at fault by printing a text file and a test page before running the app.
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> Attached are errors seen in the console during execution of the print
> example. This is the first time I've tried to print so I'm not sure what to
> do from here. I assume the app works or it would not be in the example file.
> Maybe you guys can help and suggest what I can do to find the problem.
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> Thanks,
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> Marty
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Priting is a bad beast in gb.gtk/gb.gtk3, so I will look at that. But 
even if buggy in Gambas, I don't see how can it can stuck your printer 
queue. There is another problem outside of Gambas I guess...

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Benoît Minisini