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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc: Greg DeLuca <gdeluca@cwu.EDU>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: printing from netscape
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On Sat, Aug 30, 1997 at 11:00:53PM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Greg DeLuca wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Can someone please help me solve this printing problem?
>>
>> When attempting to print a gif image (file size 22K) from netscape
>> communicator 4.02 I get an error stating:
>> 	/usr/bin/lpr :copy file is too large
>
> Place :mx#0: in the printer's printcap entry.  See printcap(5).
>
>> Netscape navigator 3.x also produced this error.  I can print small gif
>> files from netscape, and print postscript file > 57K in size from the
>> command prompt with out the error.  I have mx#0 in my printcap file but it
>> does not solve the problem.
>
> Are you sure you specified it right and placed it in the correct printer?
> That should fix it.

Remember that converts the gif to PostScript, which makes the files
much bigger.  You're probably exceeding the maximum size as a result.

Greg