Re: printer prints postscript literally
Michael Torrie <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 20:49 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > When I print a web page displayed in a browser, I get many pages of > the literal postscript file contents. Very few of us use LPRng or LPR anymore, so I can't give you advice on how to fix that. The cause of the problem is that LPR is not properly detecting the postscript stream and converting it to PCL or whatever your printer speaks. Since gnumeric and others can print, I'd try printing from galeon to a file and then cat that to the printer (cat /tmp/output.ps | lpr ). See if that prints normally. If not, try running "ps2ps output.ps - | lpr". If that works at least you'll have a workaround. I know cups sometimes works better than LPR for most things, but you'd have to set it up and configure it Michael > > Otherwise, printing goes OK (emacs postscript print buffer, dvips, > escript <file>, gnumeric pages, scribus). Because of the stepping > problem, I'm using enscript, which converts my ascii text to > postscript and sends it to the printer. If I try lpr as the printer > with galeon, the printer data and error light blinks briefly, but > nothing prints. The lpq command suggests no job went to the queue. > > I'm running debian sarge with the 2.6.8-1 kernel, and have a Lexmark > laser printer. Here's my printcap: > > lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\ > :lp=/dev/usb/lp0:\ > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ > :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\ > :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\ > :pl#66:\ > :pw#80:\ > :pc#150:\ > :mx#0:\ > :sh: > > There's nothing in lpr.log or lp.errs. > > Haines Brown > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. > Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! > Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own > Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 > _______________________________________________ > Galeon-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/galeon-user -- Michael Torrie <[email protected]> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005