Bug 75042

Summary:	all gnome apps fail to print with LATIN1 charset
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	genbug
Component:	[OLD] Printing	Assignee:	Printing Team <printing>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description genbug 2004-12-20 06:06:35 UTC

the error is produced on the console from which the app was run after hitting the print button and just before the print dialogue hits the screen.

from google search it seems that this bug affects all distros and any prog using this print dialogue. ie  gedit , abiword , gnumeric to name a few.

It seems to be very generalised and independant of hardware/printer model .


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open blank document in gedit or abiword
2.print
3.doc never goes to printer, close app and see error msg on console.

Actual Results:  
on closing abiword I see: 
(AbiWord:29619): GnomePrintCupsPlugin-WARNING **: iconv does not support ppd 
character encoding: ISOLatin1, trying CSISOLatin1

after gedit:
(gedit:5791): GnomePrintCupsPlugin-WARNING **: iconv does not support ppd 
character encoding: ISOLatin1, trying CSISOLatin1



Expected Results:  
That the document goes to the spooler.

Comment 1 genbug 2004-12-20 06:11:16 UTC

http://sysadminforums.com/t79142.html

seems this issue related to the gnome 2.6 print dialogue and has been around since at least March 2004

Comment 2 genbug 2004-12-20 06:18:58 UTC

further info:

in abiword hitting print preview throws the same error to console. Subsequent print does not repeat the error.

presumably document convertion/formatting before dialogue is invoked.

HTH

Comment 3 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-05-31 17:02:29 UTC

what about gnome-2.8or gnome-2.10?