The problem here is that you are compiling CUPS for, I'll wager, an Intel based platform which Office 2004 was not written for. In other words you aren't compiling correctly for Universal distribution. You installed the update to serve Intel apps but the older applications are coming up empty and crashing- Office 2004 specifically looks to the print subsystem upon launch and crashes when CUPS is done wrong. The easy fix is to recompile CUPS as a Universal binary and install that- you will again have functionality. People who rush to reinstall their entire system should never have touch CUPS to begin with- it is rarely necessary to reinstall.
If you don't want to compile it yourself you can always grab a copy from my blog site. I post my link with each release since Apple left us out in the cold.
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The problem here is that you are compiling CUPS for, I'll wager, an Intel based platform which Office 2004 was not written for. In other words you aren't compiling correctly for Universal distribution. You installed the update to serve Intel apps but the older applications are coming up empty and crashing- Office 2004 specifically looks to the print subsystem upon launch and crashes when CUPS is done wrong. The easy fix is to recompile CUPS as a Universal binary and install that- you will again have functionality. People who rush to reinstall their entire system should never have touch CUPS to begin with- it is rarely necessary to reinstall.If you don't want to compile it yourself you can always grab a copy from my blog site. I post my link with each release since Apple left us out in the cold.
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Sunday, October 12 2008 @ 09:57 PM PDT