Yet another printing problem 'EOF' errors

This problem is probably both a Leopard and Adobe problem combined. It's a rather complicated problem, but the bottom line is that (to most printers) the jobs coming out of one of our Mac Pros cause the printers to crash and restart themselves giving an 'EOF Error (End of File)' on at least one of them. The problem also appears to affect PDF documents created in InDesign which will then cause the same errors on any computer it is printed from.
Things you may need to know and that I've already tried:
• The same printers with the same drivers printing the same files will work on other Mac Pros of the same version with the same version of Leopard.
• Using a generic driver will print properly, however this is not a workaround because we need duplexing provided by the driver and I'm not sure how this could fix the PDF problem.
• Fonts have been disabled and checked with Font Doctor.
• Starting up in 'Safe Mode' will allow printing, but without fonts or links on server volumes.
• Switching the hard drive with another identical Mac Pro brought the problem with the HD, worked on other. In other words, the problem is definitely in the software and not a hardware problem.
• Reset the printing system numerous times.
• Re-installed the OS, Adobe CS3, and a couple of documents - same problem with no added extensions. Other computer with tons of extensions and fonts, etc. - no problem.
• Plain text documents print fine.
• Some PostScript documents will print, but rarely.
• Will not print to HP LaserJet 2420, Minolta Di650 Fiery, ABDick Platemaker.
• WIll print to Kodak DigiMaster (three different models and versions)
Everything that I think sounds like it could be the problem is disproved by the fact that several other Mac Pros with the exact same configuration have no problem. I'm thinking about cloning another Mac Pro system that works and seeing if I can go about it that way.
Apple support was no help. Nor was Adobe. They tried to be helpful, but there is no logic to solving this one. This has been going on for over a week now and I've tried so many things. It's driving me crazy. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

It was actually just a commonly used font that had gone bad somehow. Problems like that are always fonts or links. Sometimes they just aren't as obvious. We thought we'd checked everything and it affected so many of her files because she used the font so often.

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YAPP (Yet Another Printing Problem)

I've found another printing problem - this time with colour printing.
To my
surprise, Forte (3.0.E.0) can print in colour (at least on a HP 690C,
using
NT drivers for the 660C, the printer being connected to a Win95
machine).
I can print OK with from my NT develpoment machine in colour, but when
running
the same app from the Win95 client with the printer attached locally the
coloured text disappears. Has anyone else come across this problem?
Is this another of the 'Printing works fine as long as it happens
non-locally?'
features?
Thanks
Jamie Anstice
Programmer/Analyst, University of Canterbury
New Zealand

I can print OK with from my NT develpoment machine in colour, but when
running
the same app from the Win95 client with the printer attached locally the
coloured text disappears. Has anyone else come across this problem?Hi Jamie,
I wonder if this is related to the printing feature I discovered
where things I print from Forte have a strong tendency to come out in
the same colours as my windows desktop, which is
typically yellow-on-black.
- Ed
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email: [email protected]
phone: +64-3-366 7001 extn 8910
fax: +64-3-364 2999
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Re: YAPP (Yet Another Printing Problem)

Ed,
I wonder if this is related to the printing feature I discovered
where things I print from Forte have a strong tendency to come out in
the same colours as my windows desktop, which is
typically yellow-on-black.
Sounds like your print windows are inheriting their color from the desktop. You can
change this in the window workshop on the color palette. The "i" in the palette
means the window inherits it color from the desktop.
Robert
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Crisafulli Consulting, Inc.
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Damascus, MD 20872 FAX: (301) 972-9403

I can print OK with from my NT develpoment machine in colour, but when
running
the same app from the Win95 client with the printer attached locally the
coloured text disappears. Has anyone else come across this problem?Hi Jamie,
I wonder if this is related to the printing feature I discovered
where things I print from Forte have a strong tendency to come out in
the same colours as my windows desktop, which is
typically yellow-on-black.
- Ed
================================================================================
Eduard E Havelaar, Information Services Section, University of Canterbury
email: [email protected]
phone: +64-3-366 7001 extn 8910
fax: +64-3-364 2999
snailmail: Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand

Yet another "There was an error writing metadata to..." post

I know there have been several posts like this one on the forums, but I thought I'd start a new thread due to the fact that I tried a bunch of fixes that didn't work.
Specifically, I get the above-mentioned error when trying to add keywords to DNG files in Bridge CS5 4.0.4.2. The DNG files were created from Canon .CR2 RAW files using DNG Converter (both the latest version and the second-to-the-latest version).
Here's what I've done so far: I just updated DNG converter yesterday. I just updated the full suite, including ACR yesterday (6.3, I think). I just compacted my Bridge cache yesterday. I just restarted the computer. I just restarted Bridge. I just ran a full virus-check on my system. Latest Windows updates. Latest video card updates.
I've tried adding the keyword to the same file multiple times, all attempts meeting with failure. I've tried this with multiple files. Jpegs seem to work fine, DNGs don't in most cases. And that's the caveat: Sometimes, it works, but most of the time it doesn't. For example, I just added keywords to about 24 DNG files with no problem. When I tried doing the same to another batch, blammo. Problem. It seems really arbitrary, especially considering that all the DNG files were created with the same DNG converter version on approximately the same day.
Since this error is coming up only one day after updating, I'm thinking the update has something to do with it.
Should I submit this to Tech Support or does anyone have a nice fix he/she would like to suggest?
Thanks!
-Greg (Win 7, 64-bit)

Yammer P wrote:
Don't bother, I already tried it.
Besides, we're not talking about the cache, we're talking about metadata.
I know you were talking about metadata
Nevertheless, metadata are also stored in different files on our computer, not only written to the images and XMP-files. Amongs others this is in Bridge's cache and the ACR database.
As I suggested in my former post, have a look to the files in Bridge cache folder, there in "..\data\BridgeStore", with a hex-editor, especially to "FileSystem_NodesMeta.MYD", "Keywords.MYD" or "FileSystem_Nodes.MYD".
Simplified: when you f.e. click an RAW, Bridge queries if there is embedded XMP and/or a XMP file and it also checks in ACR database and the files mentioned in Bridge's cache for XMP data.
I believe Bridge queries all this locations/files every time, means when creating previews but also when adding metadata. But when it was asked to add metadata, it also would have to merge metadata and rewrite the metadata blocks in all the "cache-files" (ACR database, XMP sidecar, Bridge's cache) and of course to the images, if possible.
This is a pretty old error message (bridge V1?) and even when there is a big chance that it might be related to other things, f.e. when images are located on network drives, there also is a chance that some of those files are locked.

Yet Another NVIDIA Problem(TM)

Since I updated XFree86 a week or so ago, it just keeps failing to initialise the NVIDIA module. I tried X.Org, which does exactly the same. Looking at the log, everything seems to start up properly with no errors, but suddenly it decides to give up, no reason given.
I have just discovered that if I uninstall, reinstall and modprobe the the NVIDIA drivers, it works! Until I reboot. Then, no matter what I try, it will not work at all! So I have to uninstall, reinstall and modprobe each time I reboot.
Very weird is all I can say.

Well, I had done that, but the point was that once I restarted, whether the nvidia modules was loaded by /etc/rc.sysinit or manually with modprobe, it would not work (but modprobe did not report any errors). The /dev/nvidia* devices do not show up.
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IPod Touch (yet another) syncing problem contacts, address book

I have a new 2nd gen Touch 8g. I am trying to sync to my MacBook Pro. Would like to sync all my contacts and calendar info from my old Palm, but that is not my question today. I am unable to sync my Address Book and iCal information to Contacts and Calendar on the Touch. Specifics:
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Other details:
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Thanks!

I managed to get the sync to work after much shutting down and restarting, of programs and the computer. I cleared the iSync history just in case. I closed programs, etc. Eventually, it just worked and has continued to do so ever since. It is not slow, but rather quick.
All is well.
Now, the conversion from Palm is another story.....

Windows Shared Printer - Problem adding: Error 256

Getting error 256 (username and password) when trying to add a windows printer connected to the LAN which is shared.
Any clues to the proper method of doing this?
Beavis2084

Unfortunately, I think several things can cause that
error. Please try the Advanced Windows Printer via
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In Printer Setup, click Add, then hold the option key
and click More Printers, select Advanced from the
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Samba. Enter the URI like this:
smb://usernameonPC:password@[IP address of
PC]/printersharename
I have tried your suggestion but no success. To be clear, I used my Windows XP login name for "usernameonPC" and my server name for "IP address of PC" and my printer pool name for "printersharename". Was this right?
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Can you please help with yet "another" Sync problem?

I have recently changed from windows xp. I have a new computer with windows 7 and I loaded Itunes 10. There have been nothing but problems with my 5th gen nano since I have changed to my new computer.
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Wine and yet another font problem

So I upgraded my system (had to load lots of stuff, Xorg, Wine, the kernel..) and now my Wine fonts look like this:
http://koti.kapsi.fi/anpurola/winecfg.png
Some fonts are ok, but most of them are unreadable. I mostly run poker clients. I tried to delete my .wine directory, and install fonts again with winetricks, didn't help.
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Last edited by strummer (2008-12-08 12:12:31)

LTSmash wrote:
strummer wrote:
sunday wrote:
I've found this help:
Using wine over remote X11 sessions and No text or damaged text displayed
Please make sure not have added any fonts to wine. Font conflicts can sometimes cause a similar issue. If a fresh wine prefix.(A copy of wine that nothing has been done to yet) Is having this problem. Try setting following in registry
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\X11 Driver]
"ClientSideWithRender"="N"
Place above in text file and it can be inserted into registry by "regedit settings.txt".
This was report as been required of OS X on the 1 Dec 2007. This may change. Please apply only as required.
but it doesn't work for me. Anybody has an idea how to do it?
Wow it works! Thank you! Too bad if some of you still have problems.. BTW I'm using nvidia-96xx driver.
edit: Now that I tried different programs, I noticed some of the graphics won't work For example, I don't see any buttons in programs such as Spotify or Full Tilt Poker client..
Whoa thanks. It worked for me too.
how you ran regedit?
Last edited by na12 (2008-12-31 10:46:54)

Yet another routing problem :/

I'm trying to setup something like this:
ADSL line
|
192.168.0.1 Netgear router
|
192.168.0.2 eth0 Arch box
192.168.1.1 eth1 /
|
192.168.1.2 Windows box
The rc.conf lines are:
MODULES=(dmfe 8139too uhci_hcd snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss !usbserial !ide-scsi)
lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
eth1="eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255"
INTERFACES=(lo eth0 eth1)
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gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(gateway loopback)
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eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:AD:01:13:0D
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::280:adff:fe01:130d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:138 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3124 (3.0 Kb) TX bytes:3240 (3.1 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xa400
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
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RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
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Thank you.

Oh boy... guess it's not a good idea to chill on a Sunday afternoon, having few beers and also tweaking Linux...
I have commited a typo which costed me about 1 hour of confusion.
Wrong setting:
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Good setting (after another beer):
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:oops:
It's all smooth now.

Another printing problem

search keywords: hp, cups, foomatic, hpijs
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iBertus wrote:Do you have ghostscript and gimp-print installed? Also, my printer 1210 all-in-one doesn't show up in the list of ports but works once configured for the first USB port in cups.
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Yet Another Publish to .Mac Error

Ok, got iWeb 08. Upgraded. Started it up. Updated my iWeb 06 created sites. Completed successfully.
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Has anyone else had this issue?

Hey David - welcome to the forums...
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YASPP: Yet Another Stacksize Problem Post

Hi,
I've just installed the latest community version of Opensolaris, along with the beta of sun studio 12 on a 16-way 32GB amd64 machine. So far this machine has been running with linux+intel 9.1 compilers.
When I tried to run our openmp code, after solving a (very few) porting issues, I found out that it runs fine for the "minimal size" problems. For the minimal size code to run i have to set the stack size to at least ~45056kb (44MB).
However the medium size problem needs exactly 8 times more memory. If I try to set the stack size to 360448kb, I get an "unlimited" stack size, and the program crashes. I guess that by unlimited, the system means I have hit the maximum limit for the stack size. Is there any way to increase it?

It's a bug in the compiler. Let's look at your example program from the OpenSolaris forum:
program stack
implicit none
integer*8, parameter :: k=1024
integer*8, parameter :: s=512*k*k/4
integer,automatic :: foo(s)
integer*8 i
print*, 'allocating:', s/1024*4,'kbytes'
!$omp parallel do private(i)
do i=1,s
foo(i)=1
end do
!$omp end parallel do
pause
print*, foo(1),foo(s)
print*, 'worked'
end program
If I change s to 512k, then look at the assembly code, this is what I see:
$ f90 -O3 -m64 -xarch=sse3 ompstack.f90 -S
$ grep 'subq.*%rsp' ompstack.s
subq $32,%rsp
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devtools-x4200-0$ f90 -O3 -m64 -xarch=sse3 ompstack.f90 -S
devtools-x4200-0$ grep 'subq.*%rsp' ompstack.s
subq $32,%rsp
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The program will work if you remove the "automatic" keyword from the variable declaration. Most likely, your OpenMP program will also work if you remove "automatic" keywords. Alternatively, you could change the automatic variables to local allocatable variables. Of course, you would then have to insert an allocate statement at the beginning of the procedure.

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Chuck

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