I have looked at the man pages by opening ppmtomd.man in the original
source download. I haven't been able to run man on any software I
have downloaded through macports. Do I still have something wrong
with my macports install?
I'm not surprised that you haven't heard of the file.... its a pretty
obscure printer. Its great though... the only piece of computer
equipment I have bought that is worth as much now as when I bought it
new 10 years ago. I really wish the technology had caught on... If
you are curious, here is a brief description of the printer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroDry
I really want to get it to work with my new computer... I have a
black and white laser for everyday printing, but I occasionally want
color, and I hate ink jets... Its nice to be able to print white on
black too! :)
Thanks for all your help... I'll poke around in the open printing
forums and maybe poke the gutenprint people, and see if they can give
me some advice.
-Matt
On Jan 15, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Jan 15, 2008, at 20:06, Matt wrote:
Hmmm....
So I got the ppmtomd port installed, but it creates a unix
executable, not a ppd.
True...
Because the filetype was listed as type: Filter on the source page
http://www.openprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=ppmtomd&fromprinter=Alps-MD-1000
I tried putting a copy of the executable in with the /usr/libexec/
cups/filters
It doesn't allow me to select it as a printer though...
I don't suppose you know how to go about making a ppd out of it...
The first time I heard about ppmtomd was when you mentioned it, so
no, I don't know any more about it than you do.
You can read its manpage to see if it's really the software you want.
After you install ppmtomd, type
man ppmtomd
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