From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 8: 6:12 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 08:06:10 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D86CF37B402 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 08:06:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 3781 invoked by uid 100); 3 Jan 2001 16:06:09 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14931.19953.5596.361477@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:06:09 -0600 (CST) To: Mark Bath Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with apsfilter and a2ps ports In-Reply-To: <81296661@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Bath types: > I'm not sure if this is the right place to share this if not I'm sorry. It's a reasonable place. I just went through this myself. > I have just intsalled a new system with apsfilter and a2ps, and when printing > text have found a problem. It seems that the parameters that apsfilter calls > a2ps are not compatable. > > I'm running apsfilter version 6.0.0 and a2ps version 4.3. When I print a file > for example the hosts file via lpr /etc/hosts it seems that a2ps calls > apsfilter with the following: [ ... details deleted ... ] > I guess this is a problem with the compatability of the two packages. apsfilter needs a2ps version 4.13 (the a2ps port, not the a2ps43 port). If you install that port, it will work. Personally, I switched to magicfilter, which has a cleaner system interface, better postscript printer support, and a real text filter. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message