Well, first, congratulations on getting as far as finding that script.
This definately qualifies you for the "expert" list.
Second, this is just a stab in the dark, but when the tempfile remains
do you have proper permissions to write to it?
Finally, since you found the script & everything, I'd take a gander at
the actual ghostcript input and output.
You see that "eval" command at the end? Well, there is presumably
where the problem is.
Add some lines to the script, like this:
echo mpage_cmd: $mpage_cmd
echo gs command: gs -q -sDEVICE=$GSDEVICE \
-r$RESOLUTION \
-sPAPERSIZE=$PAPERSIZE \
-dNOPAUSE \
-dSAFER \
-sOutputFile=$TMPFILE \
$COLOR \
$EXTRA_GS_OPTIONS -
This will tell you what the spooler is actually trying to *do* to print
the text. Then you can try the commands yourself and see if you get
some coherent error messages and go from there.
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| Hello around there,
|
| I recently set up a mandrake 7 box and it seems it is impossible to print
| anything but plain ascii.
| I used printtool to set up my canon bjc-4000 (using the suggested driver). I am
| not able to print the ps-testpage (or any other ps-file), but ascii works fine.
| After tracking down the bug I ended up in
| '/usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/ps-to-printer.fpi' . It seems it creates a
| tmpfile (mktemp-command from line 45), which never gets any input. (I deleted
| the command 'rm $TMPFILE' from line 131 and the file which remained had size 0
| bytes.)
|
| So, any idea out there?
|
| THXIA Sascha Kiedrowski
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