Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:25:59 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net> To: Gary Schenk <gwschenk@socal.rr.com>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie lpd printing Message-ID: <200304231725.59212.Malcolm.Kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <200304222140.12401.gwschenk@socal.rr.com> References: <200304102145.25225.gwschenk@socal.rr.com> <16022.60289.92289.802228@guru.mired.org> <200304222140.12401.gwschenk@socal.rr.com>
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On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:10, Gary Schenk wrote: > On Friday 11 April 2003 09:21 am, Mike Meyer wrote: > > I suspect your script is broken for printing postscript files. The > > hpif script in the handbook doesn't handle those at all, so I assume > > you added that code. > > No, I did not add anything. This is the script from the handbook. I tho= ught > that it was to print postscript to a non-postscript printer. It is > essentisally the same script as in FreeBSD Unleashed. > > > Can you print postscript from the command line? If not, the KDE is > > probably turning everything into postscript, which is then failing. > > I can only print text from the command line, everything else is broken. > > > If you're only going to print from KDE, then fixing this script might > > be the way to go. However, installing something like magicfilter - an= d > > you've already got the hard parts done - which handles the difference > > between postscript and flat text properly, and automatically converts > > a number of formats to postscript for you, might be a better option i= f > > you want to print regularly from the command line. > > > > =09<mike > > The more I read about printing the more confused I get. I'd like to pri= nt > form a word processor, but don't seem to be able to in FreeBSD. I tried > installing apsfilter, but it is broken. I have no clue as to how to fix > it. Perhaps installing Star Office would help, and use its printer > interface? Or is the best solution to buy a postscript printer? > > As for magicfilter, I'm still working on it. I ran make install in > /usr/ports/print/magicfilter. However locate magicfilter shows nothing, > except for the above directory. There is nothing in the /usr/local/bin > directory indicating anything was installed. A google search sent me to > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/peripherals/printer-magicfilter.html , > which is for Debian Linux. It talks about running magicfilterconfig. I > assume there is nothing like this in FreeBSD? > > Should I be content to print only text? I talked to a friend who has b= een > running OpenBSD for three years. he only prints text. Is this common wi= th > BSD? I do need to print more than plain text. > Until now I thought you had solved your printer problem. Some more information would probably help: Which Epson printer do you have -- is it an inkjet? -- which particular=20 model. Do you have ghostscript installed? Aladdin or Gnu? With this information we can possibly fix the filter script for you. A relatively simple filter switching between plain text and postscript should be fairly simple to implement if your printer is supported by=20 ghostscript. More complex filters are sometimes employed to directly manage output in other formats -- particularly picture formats -- or to select printer=20 options such as resolution, speed vs quality but I find this overkill. malcolm
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