On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 15:24 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > Calum Polwart wrote: > > > Now for a possibly dumb question (I like dumb questions!) - I don't > > actually have a proper Post Script Printer on my machine (or network or > > anywhere) -- I have a HP InkJet which uses some translation process I > > read about ages ago to accept PS files but it doesn't understand PS > > itsself. I also have a Samsung SCX4100 laser printer - it uses a > > samsung hybrid of PS, but if you actually send raw PS to it - it falls > > over... ...So the question really is - does GS or Scribus require a > > 'proper' postscript print driver? > > Yes, preferably a PostScript 3 capable printer with an Adobe PostScript > RIP. If you have something else, it can use gs to convert its output to > an older PostScript version that might work, but with your printers it > sounds like you'd be lucky.
OK - lets back track a second... ...I can print PDFs etc normally -- the CUPS system takes the job and converts its output to whatever the printer understands. That works. Just years and years ago when I first used gs on windows (this would have been version 4 or 5 probably!) I seem to recall I had to create a ps file for it to then convert to pdf. Since my windows printers didn't know what ps was I had to install a ps printer - for which I used a HP Colour Laser and set it to print to file. (The printer never actually existed - I just used its driver). So what I'm saying is would gs or scribus use the supposedly (but not truely) ps driver for my laser to create the ps-file... or do they not do that? > However, if you're using CUPS, it should hopefully have filters that can > convert proper PostScript to something your printers can understand. If > not, and if you have problems, you may be able to print a PDF from > Acrobat with success. I don't use printers with anything but Adobe PS3 > support, so I have little direct experience with such problems. > Yes I think that's what CUPS is doing. > > Coudl this be the downfall I've been having all along with documents > > refusing to print/open in pdf? > > Print, maybe. Open, no. > So that sounds like you are saying that scribus doesn't access my "post script" driver - but does gs? If gs is converting the EPS to raster then that may be the problem? > I'll check out the files you provided and see if I can tell what's going on. > Calum -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060107/6ffb61ee/attachment.html
