Subject: [alpine-devel] How to print a pdf on Alpine Linux?

From: Alba Pompeo <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 10:29:13 -0300

This is a very basic task that I need to perform, but I don't know how to do it.
Has someone successfully printed a pdf on Alpine?
What programs are needed and what are the steps?
Thanks a lot.

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From: Orion <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 10:13:58 -0700

What do you mean by print PDF? As in a PDF file and printing with a physical printer over USB or network. Or as in "printing" a web-page to a PDF?

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From: Alba Pompeo <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 14:25:15 -0300

I got a normal pdf file with lots of text and images (74 pages).
I got a printer
I got a usb cable connecting my computer and the printer.
I want the printer to output paper with the contents of my pdf in it.

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From: Pawel Kowalski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 19:38:47 +0300 (EEST)

Install 'cups-client' package, 'hplip' (if you have a HP printer) 
or 'foomatic-db-engine' and/or 'guttenprint-cups' (otherwise). All 3 
packages are available only in testing repo. That's the main problem here.

Then setup CUPS via web-interface on port 631 and use lp command to print 
your document: https://www.cups.org/documentation.php/options.html

Also check this page at ArchWiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS

It's not a complete guide, but a good starting point.

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From: Alba Pompeo <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 13:56:46 -0200

I can't print anymore because the "hplip" package was moved to unmaintained.
Can someone fix this?
Thanks!

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Pawel Kowalski
<[email-masked]> wrote:
> Install 'cups-client' package, 'hplip' (if you have a HP printer) or
> 'foomatic-db-engine' and/or 'guttenprint-cups' (otherwise). All 3 packages
> are available only in testing repo. That's the main problem here.
>

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From: Timo Teras <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 18:10:05 +0200

On Fri, 4 Nov 2016 13:56:46 -0200
Alba Pompeo <[email-masked]> wrote:

> I can't print anymore because the "hplip" package was moved to
> unmaintained. Can someone fix this?

There's a bug about it too:
http://bugs.alpinelinux.org/issues/6330

I looked at it for few minutes, but it seemed non-trivial. The old
version of hplip no longer compiles, nor did the latest version. We'll
be happy to apply any patches sent.

But most devs are currently busy doing release engineering for 3.5 and
first rcs are hopefully in few (working) days time out. So it might be
a while before we got down to this...

> > 'foomatic-db-engine' and/or 'guttenprint-cups' (otherwise). All 3
> > Then setup CUPS via web-interface on port 631 and use lp command to
> > print your document:
> > https://www.cups.org/documentation.php/options.html
> >

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From: Alba Pompeo <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 14:49:21 -0200

That's sad, I'll wait. I know 3.5 will be lots of work and everyone's busy.
Hope you remember about hplip later then :)
Thanks.

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From: Timo Teras <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 19:04:50 +0200

On Fri, 4 Nov 2016 14:49:21 -0200
Alba Pompeo <[email-masked]> wrote:

> That's sad, I'll wait. I know 3.5 will be lots of work and everyone's
> busy. Hope you remember about hplip later then :)

The issue was error in make files rules. -j1 solved it. Pushed the new
version back to testing. I hope someone could take over the
maintainership.

/Timo

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From: Alba Pompeo <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 15:46:33 -0200

Thanks Timo!
Some dev with HP printer should take maintainership.
I hope it ends well.
I'm happy hplip is back :)

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