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Evidlo / remarkable_printer

Native printing to reMarkable.
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Mac OS problems with `make install_config` (printer driver) #22

Closed philippmuench closed 3 years ago

philippmuench commented 3 years ago

Thanks for providing this code! I used it without errors but after reinstallation of OS Big Sur the make install_config script is causing an error (screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/q0Pww2Q) I tried to manually set up the printer but its outputting %!PS-Adobe-3.0 and not %!PDF-1.5. Maybe you have an idea what I need to adapt or if I need additional drivers? Thanks!

Evidlo commented 3 years ago

Does it still happen after sudo make install_config on your new installation?

When manually adding the printer, is there a PDF option under the "Use:" dropdown?

philippmuench commented 3 years ago

I have the same error when using sudo make install_config and I also have reset my printer config.

I tried the two different setting under "Use". I also tried to manually use the remarkable.ppd there, too.

Screenshots are here https://imgur.com/a/AmmpNP5

Evidlo commented 3 years ago

I don't have an OSX machine to test on, so I can't be much help with this issue.

If you figure it out, let me know and I can update the instructions accordingly.

Choosing remarkable.ppd really should be sending a PDF though. Here is the unmodified PDF ppd (zipped) from my machine:

pdf_generic.zip

Evidlo commented 3 years ago

You might also try configuring the printer directly through CUPS web interface: https://github.com/Evidlo/remarkable_printer/pull/18/files

philippmuench commented 3 years ago

Thanks! Just found out that cups web interface gives me a more detailed error:

Idle - "File “/usr/libexec/cups/filter/pdftopdf” not available: No such file or directory"

And I had cgpdftopdf in /usr/libexec/cups/filter/ but no pdftopdf

This issue is therefore fixed via

sudo ln -s /usr/libexec/cups/filter/cgpdftopdf /usr/libexec/cups/filter/pdftopdf

Thanks for your help! : )