[ale] ghostscript and Red Hat 5.0

David Hamm dhamm at itserve.com
Wed May 13 12:33:33 EDT 1998


So you do someting like this.
gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=laserjet -sOutputFile=/dev/lp1 mypsfile.ps
And it doesn't produce an image?
On 13-May-98 Linux Idiot wrote:
> David Hamm wrote:
>> 
>> Tell netscape or what ever to print to a file and then run gv on the file. 
>> If
>> it displays the image then you might try printing the image by hand.
> 
> I can view the image with gv, it won't print from there either.
> 
>> On 13-May-98 Linux Idiot wrote:
>> > I recently upgraded to Red Hat 5.0 and suddenly ghostscript printing
>> > does not work.  I can still print simple text files via lpr filename,
>> > but things like Netscape and Applix don't work.  I've checked out the
>> > logfile for the printer in question and nothing seems to be wrong.  Can
>> > anyone point me to where I can possibly debug this thing?  The printer
>> > log file doesn't provide a lot of info and I've tried hacking the filter
>> > file unix-lpr.sh to no avail.  Where else can I find useful diagnostics
>> > to this problem?
>> >
>> > --
>> > Until later: Geoffrey         esoteric at atlnet.com
>> >
>> > NT is secure.... as long as you don't remove the shrink wrap.
>> > Want to speed up your NT box real cheap?  Replace NT with Linux...
>> 
>> ------         David Hamm - dhamm at itserve.com           --------
> 
> -- 
> Until later: Geoffrey         esoteric at atlnet.com
> 
> NT is secure.... as long as you don't remove the shrink wrap.
> Want to speed up your NT box real cheap?  Replace NT with Linux...

------         David Hamm - dhamm at itserve.com           --------






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