latest AppImage - getting closer

[Miika Turkia]

On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 6:02 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
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>> On Nov 12, 2017, at 6:40 AM, Willem Ferguson <willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za> wrote:
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>> On 12/11/2017 14:35, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
>>> On 12 November 2017 at 07:26, Willem Ferguson
>>> <willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za> wrote:
>>>> Below is the output. Its greek to me, I just followed the recipe
>>>> mechanically.
>>> i can't find any outstanding errors in the log; all libraries are
>>> present, no bad calls to CUPS.
>>> so in a way, i have no idea why the hard copy printing isn't working
>>> via the AppImage.
>>>
>>> one good question here is, did it ever work - e.g. with older
>>> AppImages e.g. Subsurface 4.6?
>>>
>>> lubomir
>>> --
>>>
>> I have AppImage 4.6.3-287 here. On that program I cannot see any hardware printers. There is only an opportunity for selecting PDF. On the new AppImage I can see all hardware printers (see attached images) but the printing does not produce output. I checked on the Subsurface download site and got AppImage 4.5.1-1600. There it is the same as on 4.6.3 : can only select PDF and cannot see print hardware.
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> So at least we know it's not a new regression - which makes me a lot less worried :-)
>
>> The latest version that I can download from the Ubuntu repository is 4.7.2-74.  It also prints perfectly.
>
> So on Ubuntu you can only print to PDF. I think that's a flaw that we can live with.

On my Ubuntu, I get the following on the console when trying to print
to a real printer:
QPainter::begin(): Returned false
QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints
QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints
QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints
QPainter::setBrush: Painter not active
QPainter::pen: Painter not active
QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
QPainter::save: Painter not active
QPainter::setClipRect: Painter not active
QPainter::translate: Painter not active
QPainter::translate: Painter not active
QPainter::setClipRect: Painter not active
QPainter::setCompositionMode: Painter not active
QPainter::setCompositionMode: Painter not active
QPainter::setCompositionMode: Painter not active
QPainter::setCompositionMode: Painter not active
QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore
QPainter::end: Painter not active, aborted

I think this was already mentioned before. Anyway, I agree that
printing from Ubuntu appimage is really not an issue as PPA is more
convenient anyway.

miika