i don't know if this is related to recent postscript printer troubles, but i have no problems talking to the local printer. the problem is font support. to support fonts, gs is run to convert to a postscript bitmap. unfortunately, gs isn't up to this task:
; bind /n/sources/plan9/386/bin/gs /bin/gs # make sure its not me ; pdf2ps upasexp.pdf /tmp/x.ps Error: /syntaxerror in -file- Operand stack: --nostringval-- 916 6921 40 78 --nostringval-- Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push Dictionary stack: --dict:1122/1686(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:72/200(L)-- --dict:64/80(ro)(L)-- --dict:37/197(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Last OS error: 20 Current file position is 53619 AFPL Ghostscript 8.53: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 - erik
