Re: printing

Hello,

I installed ghostpdl properly.
When I do:
$_lpt1='cat >/tmp/x.pcl'
I get in /tmp folder file that is output from the program and it is
actually text file.

When I do other command:
pcl6 -sDEVICE=pswrite -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile=x.ps x.pcl
I got the following error message:
Warning interpreter exited with error code -1
Flushing to end of job

Obviously interpreter is an issue.

I think that we are very close to the solution. DO you have any idea
about -1 error code of interpreter?

Thanks,

Vedran


On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Vedran Vucic wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> When I corrected as  you mentioned dosemu started normally. I entered
>> my DOS application and tried toprint, but in terminal I have seen
>> error message that pcl6 command is not found.
>> Any suggestion? Any link or slink needed for that purpose?  Is there
>> any path tweaking required?
>
> You wrote before You build ghostpdl package itself.
> Was compiled properly?
>
> Was properly installed?
>
> Is pcl6 binary runnable?
>
> Is pcl6 binary in PATH in dosemu environment? (when no, you can specify
> absolute path, e.g. $_lpt1='/my/path/pcl6 ...
>
> You should probably in this phase tune both things, dosemu and
> pcl6/ghostpdl, separately:
>
> 1) in dosemu.conf lpt specification configure output to normal file:
>
> $_lpt1='cat >/tmp/x.pcl'
>
> and verify that file "/tmp/x.pcl" is rightly created and is in PCL format.
>
>
> 2) verify that pcl6 command work right by manually creating postscript
> file from previous PCL:
>
> pcl6 -sDEVICE=pswrite -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile=x.ps x.pcl
>
> and again verify that file "/tmp/x.pcl" is rightly created and is in
> postscript format
>
>
> 3) verify this postscript file printing:
>
> lpr -P Laserprinter x.ps
>
>
> When all this steps works, You can set final "$_lpt1='....'" command in
> dosemu.conf, as you have now.
>
> !!ATTENTION!! Sorry for mistake in all my previous mails: I incorrectly
> specify "-sDEVICE=" parameter to "pdfwrite", which is obviously bad (I
> clipboard copy this from my cfg, where I use pcl6 to create PDF
> documents from DOS print output).
> Right parameter value should be "pswrite":
>
> $_lpt1='pcl6 -sDEVICE=pswrite -dNOPAUSE -sPAPERSIZE=a4
> -sOutputFile="|lpr -P YourPrinter1" -'
>
> FH
>