From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 23 7:46:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-1.core.com (mx1.core.com [208.40.40.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8323B37B89E for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 07:46:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rpd@core.com) Received: from RobDeMarco ([209.81.233.33]) by smtp-1.core.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id FQE12L00.O0H for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 08:47:10 -0600 Message-ID: <000a01bf7e0d$3a1088e0$21e951d1@RobDeMarco> From: "Rob" To: Subject: Apsfilter (or is it ghostscript?) doesn't print correctly...Help! Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 09:49:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello FreeBSD-questions readers, I am having a hell of a time getting my print system up and running. I installed the `apsfilter' port (and all of the ports it slurps up, including teTeX, ghostscript, and others) on my personal home system: FreeBSD 3.3 with an NEC SuperScript 860 running under 300x300 dpi, PCL4, LaserJet IIP compatability mode. (I am using apsfilter-5.1.4.) If I print a raw text file > /dev/lpt0 (or `lpr -Praw'), the file is printed correctly. However, once I use `apsfilter' -- for example: $ lpr man.ps -- only a quarter page (at most) is printed correctly, then I get ASCII garble, and the rest of the file is not printed. I then have to `lprm' the file and shut down the printer so it doesn't keep spewing blank pages. I have used both ghostscript-5.50 and ghostscript-5.10, and both render perfectly fine in x11 viewing software. In the past, I have used this same printer on FreeBSD (Both 2.2.7 and 3.x) with no problem. But after having the printer in storage for a few months, I thought I would reinstall everything, and it has been a mess. The printer itself seems okay, and the printer's internal settings page prints fine when I press the manual printer settings button. Incidentally, I experimented with `dvilj2p' -- a separate program provided in the texmf package -- which directly translates *.dvi files to LaserJet IIP format. With `lpr -Praw file.lj', I get something that works much better, but it doesn't print lowercase `a' for some reason, and sometimes individual letters are sprinkled randomly on the page. What's going on here? -Rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message