Andre Pang wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:59:51 +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
> > > oh, to make sure that you can actually view the test page okay,
> > > gv /usr/share/apsfilter/setup/test.ps. if that doesn't work,
> > > then nothing will ...
> >
> > Good point. gv shows any ps or pdf file created by me with LaTeX fine
> > but barfs on the test.ps supplied by apsfilterconfig. If I try to cat my
> > own test.ps file to the printer via gs it crshes with a stack error. The
> > apsfilterconfig still gives the same error below when trying to do the
> > test page.
>
> ah, well that'd be the problem.
>
> when you run 'gv test.ps', gv invokes gs to format the test.ps
> page. for whatever reason, your version of ghostscript can't
> read the test.ps file. maybe you've got a dud version of
> ghostscript, or your test.ps file is corrupted. mine looks like
> this:
>
> 15:48 bozar:/usr/share/apsfilter/setup% ls -l test.ps
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176784 May 25 2000 test.ps
> 15:48 bozar:/usr/share/apsfilter/setup% md5sum test.ps
> 0802862bd15977f946bd3fec4612d597 test.ps
$ ls -l /usr/share/apsfilter/setup/test.ps
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176702 Jan 3 2000 test.ps
Slightly diff size for my test.ps and apt-cache show apsfilter shows...
Package: apsfilter
Binary: apsfilter
Version: 5.1.4-1
> you might want to check that you have the correct test.ps file.
> (i've got apsfilter 6.0.0-1 installed from woody.)
I'll upgrade to at least 6.0 and see how that goes.
> glad to see that you got the printer working outside of the
> apsfilter test page, though!
Yep, thanks for SLUG help. Needed it so an IRIX box could print to te
laserjet via my Linux box :-)
Mike
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