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README says to use textonly.ppd which doesn't exist

Open alexhenrie opened this issue 7 months ago • 0 comments

Describe the bug Under "TEXTTOTEXT", the README says:

In the printer setup tool select the "Generic Text-Only Printer" (with lpadmin use "-m drv:///cupsfilters.drv/textonly.ppd")

When I follow the instructions and run lpadmin -p textonly -m drv:///cupsfilters.drv/textonly.ppd, I get:

lpadmin: cups-driverd failed to get PPD file - see error_log for details.

Expected behavior There should be clear instructions on how to use the TEXTTOTEXT filter, including instructions on how to get any required PPD files.

Additional context textonly.ppd was deleted in commit 651ec222a ("texttotext, textonly: Replaced script-based textonly by more versatile C-based texttotext filter.", 2016-07-14).

A Google search turned up at least four other people looking for this file:

alexhenrie avatar Jul 12 '24 03:07 alexhenrie