Re: printing

Hello,

I recompiled ghostpdl with fonts and I have done print from my
DOSapplication to /tmpwith x.pclasoutput.

After that I have done command pcl6.....
and I Got message that it cannot read x.pcl file which is actually the
same that I sent you already.
Everything is done as root so permissions are not issue.

best wishes,

Vedran

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Vedran Vucic wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please find attached output of my DOS application.
>> Fonts are in /usr/local/ghostpdl-8.71/urwfonts
>>
>> I am not sure that pcl6 is aware oftheirlocation.
>>
>> I still have the same error message.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> vedran
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Vedran Vucic wrote:
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> I never got with ghostpdl to any bigger problems and not sure how
>>> diagnose your.
>>>
>>> You can try some pcl6 (gs) debug switches, here is their doc:
>>> http://svn.ghostscript.com/ghostscript/trunk/gs/doc/Use.htm#Debug_switches
>>> You can study ghostpdl source code.
>>>
>>> Can you send me (or past somewhere for download) your PCL output from
>>> DOS app? I can probe convert it with my ghostpdl build.
>>>
>>> Have you installed and rightly configured URW TTF fonts? ghostpdl
>>> package require them.
>
> My pcl6 works likely OK (see its output at:
> http://www.hanzlici.cz/tmp/x.ps.bz2
> ), there is probably some wrong in your ghostpdl package.
>
> Regarding TTF fonts location - problem may be there, you should correct
> their path, this which is defined in ghostpdl source codes seems
> appropriate for windos build.
>
> I have located fonts in "/usr/share/fonts/urw-ttf/", then I patched
> "pl/pjparse.c" as you can see in attached patch (there are some other
> smaller patches, as I want use zlib and png system shared libraries
> etc., and use some paths as conventional in my distro (Fedora).
>
> SPEC file, which describe how I build ghostpdl and font RPM packages, is
> contained in source rpm
> (http://www.hanzlici.cz/packages/fedora/ghostpdl/14/ghostpdl-8.71-2.fc14.src.rpm)
> or i got it for you to
> http://www.hanzlici.cz/tmp/ghostpdl-8.71-fc14.spec
> Notice instaled libpaper-devel, freeglut-devel, expat-devel,
> libjpeg-devel, libpng-devel and zlib-devel packages.
>
> At http://www.hanzlici.cz/packages/fedora/ghostpdl/14/ are my ghostpdl
> RPM packages for current Fedora version (14; I have at this site dosemu
> RPM packages as well)
>
> Hope this help.
> Franta Hanzlik
>