Re: Printing Blank Pages - Bug 7852

From: J.M. Maurer <uwog_at_uwog.net>
Date: Wed Oct 18 2006 - 21:13:58 CEST

On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 11:53 -0500, Mark Kane wrote:
> Hi everyone. I don't mean to bug the developers, but I'm wondering if
> someone can look at bug number 7852. It's been open since 2004 and even
> in the latest version 2.4.5 we still cannot print with our laser
> printers.
>
> I'm running 2.4.5 on FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE, and other people in the office
> are running similar versions and the only way they are able to print
> what they do in AbiWord is to save as a PDF and then use a PDF reader
> to print the PDF. Trying to print anytime directly from AbiWord just
> prints blank pages, and when I "Print Preview" with the laser printer
> highlighted, it shows blank pages too. The Lexmark Z52 still works,but
> it's getting pretty old now and doesn't print nearly as well or as fast
> as the Brother HL-5250DN laser.
>
> Let me know if I can provide any info or test any patches. I'm willing
> to help however I can to resolve this.

I'm clueless how this could happen ... being able to reproduce this
would help... until then, all we can hope for is that someone who can
reproduce this will debug it. There are tons of places where this could
go wrong, so there is no clear path to follow.

Marc
Received on Wed Oct 18 21:14:29 2006

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