Where to find foomatic-filters-ppds?

[NoOp]

On 04/29/2008 01:43 PM, Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 04:34:26AM -0700, Francis Earl wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 23:51 +0200, Josef Wolf wrote:
>> > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 02:00:14PM -0700, Francis Earl wrote:
>> > > The package you require are looking for is foomatic-filters, however,
>> > > given that it is an HP printer, I think hplip should work fine - it is
>> > > provided and maintained by HP themselves... 
>> > > 
>> > > Both of these are installed by default however, so I'm not sure what the
>> > > issue might be there...
>> > 
>> > Thanks for the answer, Francis.  Unfortunately, I don't get it:
>> > neither foomatic-filters nor hplip contains any ppd files.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/all/foomatic-filters-ppds/filelist

>> 
>> I believe they were all moved to 'openprinting.org-ppds' - which could
>> potentially have caused the issues you're experiencing.
> 
> It is openprinting-ppds.  With HP_Laserjet_4.ppd from this package, I get
> much better results.  But the field to select the paper type is grayed
> out and "Letter" is selected by default.  Again, with suse's
> HP_Laserjet_4.ppd, I can select "A4" paper size.
> 
> 

Did you have problems downloading the ppd from the package that I
pointed you to?

Did you copy the suse ppd over and use that as suggested as an alternate?