From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 7 18:19:17 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 18:19:14 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76BFE37B400 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 18:19:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA85523; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 13:18:57 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from carl@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au) Received: from newton.aipo.gov.au(10.0.100.18) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma085511; Fri, 8 Dec 00 13:18:46 +1100 Received: from localhost (carl@localhost) by newton.aipo.gov.au (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eB82Ihn75697; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 13:18:44 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from carl@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au) X-Authentication-Warning: newton.aipo.gov.au: carl owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 13:18:43 +1100 (EST) From: Carl Makin X-Sender: carl@newton.aipo.gov.au To: Eric M Logan Cc: STABLE Subject: Re: Netatalk--printing from a MAC... In-Reply-To: <3A3032FD.BC0DD692@mediaone.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Eric M Logan wrote: > No, it's just a regular DeskJet printer. I have apsfilter installed but > shouldn't the specification of the ppd file attend to the conversion? No. The PPD specifies things like what Postscript level to use, how many bins the printer has, memory, envelope feeder and such. The laserwriter 8 driver always prints postscript. > Afterall, I can readily print through LPD w/o the use of apsfilter from any of > the PCs as I can specify the driver for the particuar printer when I'm setting > it up from the PC side. This is so frustrating. The PC's send their print jobs formated for the Deskjet. What you need to do is point the papd (appletalk) print queue to a BSD print queue controlled by apsfilter. Apsfilter will determin the job is postscript and get ghostscript to convert it for you. Carl. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message