From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 17 17:07:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BFD216A420 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:07:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dennyboy@cableone.net) Received: from S4.cableone.net (s4.cableone.net [24.116.0.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A40943D7B for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:07:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dennyboy@cableone.net) Received: from badboybox.cableone.net (unverified [69.92.7.117]) by S4.cableone.net (CableOne SMTP Service S4) with ESMTP id 46678696 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:41:17 -0700 Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:09:10 +0000 (UTC) From: Denny White To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: X-GPG-PUBLIC_KEY: http//wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net X-GPG-FINGERPRINT: D0A9 AD44 1F10 E09E 0E67 EC25 CB44 F2E5 1644 E79A MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-NotAscii: charset=us-ascii; X-IP-stats: Incoming Last 1, First 24, in=11, out=0, spam=0 X-External-IP: 69.92.7.117 X-Abuse-Info: Send abuse complaints to abuse@cableone.net Subject: apsfilter question/problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:07:20 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I read the article at Onlamp about printing for the impatient. Installed apsfilter and samba on my old hp netserver so I'd be able to print to an hp 722c deskjet printer connected to an xp box. Gimp-print was also installed. Ghostscript was already installed. I ran /usr/local/share/apsfilter/./SETUP & thought I had it whipped. That's where the fun started. Apparently I've missed something along the way, since the print job never gets sent to the xp box. I also found out at linuxprinting.org that the recommended hp 722c driver is pnm2ppa. There was only one section in the install script that mentioned that driver, 10) PPA printer, so I chose that. It plugs it into the setup, but when I try to print a test page, I get ERROR: additional filter 'pnm2ppa' not found. I found the driver at linuxprinting.org & downloaded it. How do I go about using it? Is there a way to compile it into ghostscript? I have ghostscript-gnu-nox11-7.07_14 & the apsfilter setup script found it & didn't complain. Do I need to install another more complete version? I know if I install ghostscript-afpl, I'll also have to recompile & reinstall apsfilter with the proper make options. When I choose the more generic just plain deskjet printer driver, the script accepts it, and when I try to print a test page, there's no complaining about the driver like when I try the ppa driver. Test page is created, supposedly sent to the xp printer with even a speed, average around 950 kb/s, but I see where it only goes to stdin. I'm definitely not a programmer, but another filter, ghostscript, something, has to relay it to stdout, is that correct? So, I could use some pointers on this. If anyone interested in answering needs more info, I'll be glad to plug it in to a reply. Like smb.conf, apsfilterrc, & so forth. Thanks. Denny White GnuPG key : 0x1644E79A | http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net Fingerprint: D0A9 AD44 1F10 E09E 0E67 EC25 CB44 F2E5 1644 E79A -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (OpenBSD) iD8DBQFD9a7dy0Ty5RZE55oRAg/8AKCaidZVu40OrIvmGeLm/Zw40RDAqgCaAggH YmKpizvD6o7ihgZM8MmQKn0= =wm8n -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----