Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 21:40:12 -0700 From: Gary Schenk <gwschenk@socal.rr.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie lpd printing Message-ID: <200304222140.12401.gwschenk@socal.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <16022.60289.92289.802228@guru.mired.org> References: <200304102145.25225.gwschenk@socal.rr.com> <16022.60289.92289.802228@guru.mired.org>
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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 thought 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 - and > 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 if > you want to print regularly from the command line. > > <mike The more I read about printing the more confused I get. I'd like to print 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 been running OpenBSD for three years. he only prints text. Is this common with BSD? I do need to print more than plain text. Gary Schenk
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