From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 1 22:24:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E18016A415 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 22:24:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luck@computerking.ca) Received: from shoemasters.com (shoemasters.com [68.144.188.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBB0F43D49 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 22:24:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from luck@computerking.ca) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by shoemasters.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A76057C46E4 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 15:11:44 -0700 (MST) Received: from shoemasters.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (shoemasters.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 20846-10 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 15:11:42 -0700 (MST) Received: from shoemasters.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by shoemasters.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D98BC7C469C for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 15:11:42 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <17106839.821162419102856.JavaMail.root@shoemasters.com> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 15:11:42 -0700 (MST) From: "RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-DSPAM-Result: Innocent X-DSPAM-Processed: Wed Nov 1 15:11:43 2006 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 0.9997 X-DSPAM-Probability: 0.0000 X-DSPAM-Signature: 45491b9f60281260912508 X-DSPAM-Factors: 27, X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.186 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 autolearn=ham tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, AWL=-0.062, BAYES_00=-2.599, DSPAM_HAM=-0.1, HTML_30_40=0.374, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001] X-Spam-Score: -4.186 X-Spam-Level: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: printing PDF on freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:24:06 -0000 Hello all am having great difficulty getting pdf to print to the printer attached to my Freebsd box please help. I have gotten my printer working like in the handbook and can get regular text files to print nicely. However cannot make any sense out of the ghostscript section and believe this is what i need to make things work. I have added the following lines to my /etc/printcap but of course the filter does not exist at that directory what should i do? please help printer model is star nx-2430 -- Computer King/CaNMail http://www.computerking.ca http://www.canmail.org Sales, Service, and Hosting Email, Data, and Web Packages Ask about web design specials Affiliates http://www.computerking.ca/pages/links/affiliates/affiliates.htm Maybe Computer Science should be in the College of Theology. -- R. S. Barton