Dan Coutu wrote: > In the never-ending quest to tweak things so that they work just a > little bit better I've managed to enhance Ghostscript so much that I > can't print anymore. > :-( >
Progress, but it ain't soup yet. Thought I'd update folks on what I've learned so far in case someone else can benefit from it before I get the real answer. I'm trying to fix this the right way instead of just hack it to death. So what I've got so far is this set of relations between things. RH 7.2 uses foomatic, ghostscript, hpijs, and possibly other things such as lpdomatic, and various queueing mechanisms with melodic names like lpd, lprng, GNUlpr, cups, ppr, and pdq. While ghostscript is central to being able to handle the PostScript stuff the other pieces are also quite definitely required. I had thought that just updating hpijs and then ghostscript would be enough to get better printing. Wrong! You have to also update foomatic. (Man it sure would help if RH already RPMed all this stuff, but noooo.) That's where I'm at now. It took forever and two days to get a successful download of the foomatic tarball. The remote system kept disconnecting me before the file fully downloaded! Note for people having trouble doing http downloads (such as when an ftp server is not available, which was the case for this one) try the wonderfully useful wget utility! It automatically detected the disconnects, reconnected, skipped the already downloaded bits, and requested the file from the point of last disconnect. It automatically did this for me the required 20+ times that were needed to download this 526K file. I was soooo thankful to find that gem! Anyway, now I'm having trouble building foomatic because it says it can't find my libxml library even though it is in plain sight and paths are setup right. I may have to ping the foomatic guy about this one... More later. I'll document the process that worked for me once I get it. -- Dan Coutu Managing Director Snowy Owl Internet Consulting, LLC Mobile: 603-759-3885 Fax: 603-673-6676 ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
