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Subject: Re: printing
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On Sun, 5 Oct 1997 rknebel@mail.microserve.net wrote:

>When I try to print postscript ie from xv or netscape I get about 6 pages
>0f ghostscript error messages.

I use this, which works quite well. In whatever printer application I want
to use, I specify nonpsprint. This sends the print job to printer lp
(the default).

A nonpsprint file (shell script)

#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/nonpsconvert | lpr -Plp

nonpsconvert (also a shell script) 

#!/bin/sh

read first_line
first_two_chars=`expr "$first_line" : '\(..\)'`

if [ "$first_two_chars" = "%!" ]; then
     /usr/local/bin/ps2pcl 
       && exit 0
else

    /usr/local/bin/a2ps -ns -nH -d -1 -F9 -p -q | /usr/local/bin/ps2pcl
       && exit 0

fi

exit 2

ps2pcl (also a shell script)

#! /bin/sh
gs -q -sDEVICE=djet500c -r300x300 -sOutputFile=- -SPAPERSIZE=a4 -

This works quite nicely for me.
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