>From man cat: With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
1) Prinicple #1, if you do not understand something, look in the man
pages. I'm not being sarcastic with you or any newbie, please forgive me
if you had that thought. I, too, have to remember to look at the man
pages first when I have a question.
Now try printing your output to say a postscript file. Then open
ghostscript and look at it and then use the ghost to print it and
specify the printer device driver and all of the options that you want.
If this works then the problem is not with ghostscript but with the
intermediate software.
Tom
Sascha Kiedrowski wrote:
>
> Back again
>
> well I found out that the tmpfile is writeable and the commands issued by the
> script are like the following:
> cat - | sed "s/[(]%%.*%%[)].*flush//g" |
> gs -q -sDEVICE=bjc600 -r360x360 -sPAPERSIZE=a4
> -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -sOutputFile=/tmp/printtmp.2qRNaU
> -dBitsPerPixel=8 - >/dev/null 2>&1 ; cat /tmp/printtmp.2qRNaU ; rm
> /tmp/printtmp.2qRNaU
>
> If I try to issue the command
> gs -q -sDEVICE=bjc600 -r360x360 -sPAPERSIZE=a4
> -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -sOutputFile=<my file>
> -dBitsPerPixel=8
> everything works fine.
> My problem is, I don't understand the "cat - | ..." part from the first
> script. I think it sort of "feeds" the file into gs, but I don't know.
> (I can't figure out any other part of the script where the file-to-print get's
> into the script.
>
> On Sam, 18 M�r 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
> > [...]
> > 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
> > --
> > I am "Brian, the man from babble-on" (Brian T. Schellenberger).
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