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matthiasbock / dymo-cups-drivers

Inofficial repository for Dymo's offical FOSS CUPS printer drivers for Linux
https://www.dymo.com/en-US/dymo-label-sdk-and-cups-drivers-for-linux-dymo-label-sdk-cups-linux-p--1
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Cups Error: APPrinterIconPath: No such file or directory #9

Closed GHPS closed 5 years ago

GHPS commented 5 years ago

While working an PR https://github.com/matthiasbock/dymo-cups-drivers/pull/8 I took a second look at Cups' error.log and stumbled upon this recurring entry:

unknown: File \"/Library/Printers/DYMO/CUPS/Resources/LM400.icns\" not available: No such file or directory

On linux the Cups system throws this error every time the PPD file is accessed. The cause for the error is this line:

*APPrinterIconPath: "/Library/Printers/DYMO/CUPS/Resources/LM400.icns"

The APPrinterIconPath function is a Cups extension used on MacOS, specifying an icon (in Apple's icns format) present only in MacOS [1]. Therefore, Cups complains about a missing file - which would be useless in Linux even if the file was available.

The problem has obviously arisen when Dymo decided to use the same PPD files on Linux and MacOS systems. This somehow worked but has side effects, i.e. error messages gone astray.

Since this is the Linux driver I suggest deleting all references to APPrinterIconPath in all included PPD files.

1:https://www.cups.org/doc/spec-ppd.html#APPrinterIconPath

matthiasbock commented 5 years ago

I agree. Are you planning on preparing a pull request for that?

GHPS commented 5 years ago

Done, see PR https://github.com/matthiasbock/dymo-cups-drivers/pull/10

matthiasbock commented 5 years ago

Great. Merged. Thank you!