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Date:      Thu, 10 Apr 2003 17:26:19 +0930
From:      Malcolm Kay <Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net>
To:        Gary D Kline <kline@thought.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ghostscript upgrade.
Message-ID:  <200304101726.19370.Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030410050051.GB59296@tao.thought.org>
References:  <20030410041848.GA59255@tao.thought.org> <20030410050051.GB59296@tao.thought.org>

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On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:30, Gary D Kline wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 09:18:48PM -0700, Gary D Kline wrote:
> > =09Hi Gang,
> >
> > =09I just upgraded ghostscript for the first time in at least
> > =09a few years...  I installed the ghostscript-gnu for my old
> > =09hp500.
> >
> > =09In /usr/local/libxec/hpif, part of my gs line is:
> >
> > =09/usr/local/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q  -sDEVICE=3Ddjet500

> >
> > =09only trying to print Postscript gives me this err:
> >
> > =09"Unknown device: dj500"
> >
> > =09Can anybody help me get this fixed??
> >
> > =09thannks much,
>
> =09   NB: I solved my problem by using ghostscript-afpl,
> =09   but still don't understand why -gnu fails.  Can
> =09   anyone point me at the proper docs?  tia, --gary

The original error message looks wrong if you specified:
    -sDEVICE=3Ddjet500
I get your error message only when specifying the device as
    -sDEVICE=3Ddj500

On the other hand with the gnu-ghostscript installed here
with a printer device I must specify an output and input or a different e=
rror=20
is anounced. Output does not default to stdout:
    -sOutputFile=3D-  -
is required for output to stdout from stdin. By adding this to your comma=
nd=20
line it works here with gnu version 6.52_4.

Note that:
   gs -h
will list all devices known to your particular installation
of ghostscript.=20

Malcolm Kay



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