Re: 19980324 Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux By Karl M. Hegbloom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * gv -- A PostScript and PDF viewer for X using 3d Athena Widgets Hi, i have taken this one from Karl. Marco (gs and gv maintainer) ^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ghostscript 5 for 1.3.1?
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Britton wrote: I heard that someone had packaged Ghostscript 5 for the old libc, but all I can find in non-free is gs 4. Anyone know where the new one is, if it exists? Hi, I have tried to upload the package a lot of time ago, but it is still in the Incomming directory (the queue has not been processed for a looong time...) You can find the package on my machine (here in Europe, sorry): http://www.di.unipi.it/~pistore/gs-aladdin_5.03-0.99_i386.deb Thank you, Marco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Ink Jet Printers
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Jess Stryker wrote: HP 694c DeskJet Hi, i am very happy with my HP 694c. I am using gs-aladdin 5.03 with the cdj550 driver to print ps and pdf files. Ciao, Marco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: magifilter problems
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote: I have a pretty strage problem with my new printer. I have a HP 6L with the latest version of magicfilter from hamm When I try to print anything but text and pcl files nothing happens. I have gs-alldin installed. If however, I process ps files with the same exact options as in the filter I am using and print with lp the output file it works. Hi, your error seems to happen with old versions of gs-aladdin (the problems happen when gs is execuder with user=root or group=root AND the output is sent to the stdout). Which version are you using? You could consider to install gs-aladdin 5.03-1 (in hamm); this requires a libc6 system however... Otherwise you can try to modify your filter file as follows: replace # PostScript 0 %! filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r300 -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=- - with; # Postscript 0 %! filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r300 -sDEVIC=ljet4 -sOutputFile=\|cat 13 - 31 12 Anybody has any clue. Of course I can keep working like that but a) can't print through application b) it is not very elegant since after the gs works I get a GS prompt and have to type quit to continue with the lp command. The GS promt can be avoided by adding -c quit at the end of the gs command, like in: gs -q -dSEFAR -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=your_device -sOutputFIle=tmp_file \ you_file.ps -c quit Ciao, Marco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems with the Xfig Package
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Gerardo Lamastra wrote: I have experienced the following proble with the Xfig: when you select the T icon (for text writing), xfig hangs and also the xterm shell blocks forever! I need to kill xfig and the shell!! Hi, are you using xaw95? I had the same problem when i used xfig with this library, and they disappeared when i moved to xaw3d. Ciao, Marco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Ghostscript / Brother HL-660
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Pierre Sarrazin wrote: 1. What is the precise incantation to ask Ghostscript to print a postscript file to my Brother HL-660 laser printer? I used to be able to do this in the past, but I can't remember the options. You could consider to install magicfilter: : Magicfilter is a customizable, extensible automatic printer filter. It uses : its own magic database (a la file(1)) to decide how to print out an given : entry. So, if you print a PS file (i.e., a file starting with %!) via lpr, it automatically calls gs with thje right parameters. I tried something like gs -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=/dev/lp1 foo.ps but I only get this: Loading NimbusMonL-Regu font from /usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/n022003l.pfb... 1750128 432798 1300076 11891 0 done. Try something like gs -sDEVICE=ljet4 -dNOPAUSE -q -sOutputFile=/dev/lp1 -c quit or, even better, gs -sDEVICE=ljet4 -dNOPAUSE -q -sOutputFile=\|lpr -c quit -dNOPAUSE: gs does not stop after each page -q: suppresses some messages like -c quit: automatically exits at the end of the job -sOutputFile=\|program: sends the output to program using a pipe Ciao, Marco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: printer trouble
On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Hello everyone, Hi! I recently got a problem with a printer filter used by lpr. The filter is used for a HP Deskjet 870 cxi, and used to work properly on this machine, and still does on other machines: The princap entry is [OMITTED] The filter /etc/filters/filter870.ps looks like: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/gs -sDEVICE=cdj550 \ -q \ -r300x300 \ -sPAPERSIZE=a4 \ -dNOPAUSE \ -dSAFER \ -sOutputFile=- \ - | \ lpr -Php870raw hp870raw is a remote printer. The problem might be caused by the fact that gs was recently replaced with Alladin-gs, version 4.03-7. If I run `lpr -Pcol1 bla.ps', I see with ps -eaxfwww that gs is run with the following arguments: /usr/bin/gs -sDEVICE=lvga256 -sDEVICE=cdj550 -q -r300x300 -sPAPERSIZE=a4 ... ^^^ It doesn't stop, and nothing gets printed. Now who or what put -sDEVICE=lvga256 there? I printed the environment from the filter, and did not see a GS_DEVICE variable. I tried to set the GS_DEVICE variable in the filter, but it didn't help. It is gs that put -sDEVICE=lvga256 there! In fact, /usr/bin/gs is not the real program, it is just a wrapper, which, in particular, adds the parameter above as an then calls /usr/bin.gs.main, whihc is the real program. The parameter is added when gs thinks that the program is running outside X11, so that the svga device is used as the default one (if the fprogram is running under X11, the X device is the default one). In any case, the -sDEVICE=cdj550 overwrites the default device, so this is not the cause of the problem. Even more mysterious, if I run `filter870.ps bla.ps', it works correctly! However, this should not work if you execute the script as root (In fact i think that the problem occurs since your filter is executed with root permissions). If gs is executed with superuser permissions, it tries to initialize the svga library and this produces garbage messages on the stdout something like Svga libraries version xxx.yyy, using virtual console #7; these messages are sent to the printer, which gets confused and does not print correctly. To see if this is the cause of the problem, you can execute filter870.ps bla.ps as root: it should NOT print correctly. Solutions: 1) It is dangerous to execute gs with root privileges (the file /usr/doc/gs/README.something should explain why), so you should modify (or change) your lpr program, so that the filter are called without root permissions. 2) You can move to a more recent version of gs-aladdin (gs-aladding 5.03 should work correctly; unfortunately i have a lot a problems to uplopad it; for the moment, you can find the package at http://www.di.unipi.it/~pistore/gs-aladdin_5.03-0.99_i386.deb 3) You can modify the filter, so that it looks like #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/gs -sDEVICE=cdj550 \ -q \ -r300x300 \ -sPAPERSIZE=a4 \ -dNOPAUSE \ -dSAFER \ -sOutputFile=\|cat 13 \ - \ 31 12 | \ lpr -Php870raw In this way, the real output of gs is not confused with the garbage output of the svgalibs. (In the case of your filter, it can also be rewritten as follows: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/gs -sDEVICE=cdj550 \ -q \ -r300x300 \ -sPAPERSIZE=a4 \ -dNOPAUSE \ -dSAFER \ -sOutputFile=\|lpr -Php870 \ - 12 however some other filters require that the output of gs is sent on stdout.) Hopefully this will solve your problems... Ciao, Marco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Bug#9766: magicfilter and (pdf = postscript) problems
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, J.Sigbrandt wrote: Hi, Need to get pdf file printing working using magicfilter. The printer is a LaserJet 4P (no postscript module) [SKIP] use gs to print .pdf [SKIP] Hi, first of all, thank you very much for your experiments! Some problems with pdf files have been solved in the new version of gs-aladdin (5.03). I am trying to upload a libc5 version of this package since yesterday, but there are problems with master.debian.org (the libc6 version has been uploaded some weeks ago). If you want, you can download the package from http://www.di.unipi.it/~pistore/gs-aladdin_5.03-0.99_i386.deb I'd be very grateful if you could test the new package with your file and printer. Thank you, Marco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Gs-aladdin 5.03 not yet uploaded...
so i was able to obtain a libc5 gs-aladdin 5.03! (I'll upload it this night). Unfortunately i have problems with the upload (problems on master probably). I'll continue to try, however if someone needs gs-aladdin 5.03 ungently, i can put the package somewhere in my private ftp space. Thank you, Marco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Upgrading ghostscript?
On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: It's too bad that the libc6 upgrade is leaving users out in the cold for so long... I just got an Epson Stylus Color 800 printer to try out, and I could managed much resolution out of Debian 1.3's installed ghostscript. $ gs -h Aladdin Ghostscript 3.33 (4/10/1995) Now, the latest and greatest from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ is Aladdin Ghostscript 5.03, so the installed version is very old. Okay, so I notice that `non-free' has gs-aladdin 4.03-7. gs-aladdin 5.03-1 is available in unstable, but lists *no* related packages on the web page (This is a bug!). I downloaded it to find it needs: libc6, libjpegg6a, libpaperg (= 1.0.3-4), libpng0g, svgalibg1, xlib6g (= 3.3-5), zlib1g So it's based on libc6... I presume I'm not the first to need Aladdin Ghostscript 5.03 to drive a recent printer. Should I just get the sources and install them over Debian's installed files? Do I need anything else? Will I screw up my Debian 1.3 system if I do so? Hi, i am the maintainer of gs-aladdin. I understand that a libc5 version of gs-aladdin 5.03 is urgently required. Unfortulnately it is quite difficult (at least for me) to produce it working on a libc6 system. This week-end i went home and installed Debian 1.3 on my old computer, so i was able to obtain a libc5 gs-aladdin 5.03! (I'll upload it this night). I am sorry for the delay of my answer, but i did not read the mail since Friday. Hopefully the new version will solve your problems... Thank you, Marco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Upgrading ghostscript?
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about libpaperg? Last time I checked, it was not there (or stuck in Incoming?) Stuck in Incoming Thanks, Marco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Printer-setup
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Lucas wrote: I am presently using a2ps and gs-alladin to format text files into postscript and then print them using gs. If I create a script containing the gs command, this could be my print filter in the printcap file (don't remember if it's if or of). My problem is that whenever I issue the gs command to print something formatted by a2ps, the output always includes one extra blank page and the last printed page (before the blank one) always looks like the last line of print has been cut off by about a fraction of a millimeter. My theory is that the papersize used by either program is incompatible. I believe gs is using what it calls letter defined as 8.5x11 and a2ps is using something with some code which I can't remember but which looks like an ISO standard ... or something. Hi, i am the maintainer of gs-aladdin. Both gs-aladdin and a2ps use the libpaper library to set the papersize (in brief: they use the paper which appears in /etc/papersize), so the papersizes should be compatible. (Are you using old versions of the packages?) Anyway, you can select the papersize for gs-aladdin with option -sPAPERSIZE=a_known_paper_size, e.g., gs -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sDEVICE=lj_something test.gs or with the options -sDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=xxx and -sDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=yyy (probably there is also an option to select the papersize for a2ps, but it is not installed here...) You could also prove to redirect the output of a2ps to a file and to use ghostview to check if it looks correctly. Thanks, Marco == Marco Pistore email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Pisa [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: ++39 (50) 40031 Gnu/Debian Linux TeX/Latex fanfax: ++39 (50) 887 226 == -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
