From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 25 17:20:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C28AB14D96 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 17:20:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt4-208-166-127-46.dialup.HiWAAY.net [208.166.127.46]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA27640; Tue, 25 May 1999 19:20:48 -0500 (CDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (nospam.hiwaay.net [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA06629; Tue, 25 May 1999 19:20:39 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199905260020.TAA06629@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Fabrizio Invernizzi Cc: FreeBSD QUESTIONS From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Printing Postscript file In-reply-to: Message from Fabrizio Invernizzi of "Tue, 25 May 1999 16:31:13 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 19:20:39 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Fabrizio Invernizzi writes: > Hi > > I am tring to configure my printer to print postscript files, but I have > some problems and some questions. [...] > This configuration works, but when I try to print with the line command > /usr/local/bin/gs -sDEVICE=laserjet -sOutputFile=\|lpr quickguide.pdf > after some messsages from gs, I obtain > > lpr: : copy file is too large > Broken pipe > > > The result is that only some pages of the document (that is only 500k) are > printed. You got as much as 500k printed? Maybe they upped the default limits. Anyhow, edit your /etc/printcap again and add ":mx#0:" somewhere in your printer definition. This will remove the print size quota. Just make sure you have enough room in the spool file's filesystem for anything you print. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message