Hi All
We are running a RedHat 6.0 printserver and have had some very annoying
problems printing postscript files generated by latex (Tex Version: TeX
(Web2C 7.3) 3.14159)
The problem is that postscript files generated by latex often have lines
of instructions starting with double percentage marks (%%). (This is
apart from other lines starting with single percentage marks (%).) When
sent to the a laser printer, the printer simply hangs and refuses to
print. If lines starting with %% are taken out, most often printing
works, but in some cases it doesn't, presumably because in some cases,
although lines starting with %% stop the print job, these lines also
contain instructions necessary for printing without which printing stops
also.
Presumably the printfilters cannot handle lines starting with %%, but I
really can't do much about that as both input and output filters are
binary files.
If I look at the server's printcap file, input and output filters are
the following:
/usr/lib/atalk/filters/ifpap
/usr/lib/atalk/filters/ofpap
Both files belong to netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.0a18.2-phh4
But, as I said, these are binary files.
Has anyone come across this problem before?
Is there something that can be done about it?
Thanks
Hugo
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Dr Hugo Bouckaert - Systems Administrator, Computer Science UWA
Tel: +(61 8) 9380 2878 / Fax: +(61 8) 9380 1089
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