Package: magicfilter
Version: 1.2-5
There is one serious problem which prevented magicfilter from working here,
and some small glitches.
1. The executable is installed as /usr/sbin/magicfilter, but the (rather
well done) /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig extracts a filter, in my case
/usr/sbin/dj500-filter which starts with # !/usr/bin/magicfilter (not bin,
not sbin) so that my initial print attempt failed with
Aug 6 19:24:18 miles lpd[13640]: cannot execv /usr/sbin/dj500-filter
as dj500-filter tries to start a program that's not there.
A solution would be to do a s|usr/sbin|usr/bin| from magicfilterconfig.
2. There is another problem with extracting the filter from the set of
filters in /usr/doc/examples/magicfilter/filters/filters.tar.gz as the
extracted file is not registered with dpkg --- upon removal of the package
a useless file will remain on the machine.
3. The generated /etc/printcap had a :pl#72:, you could check /etc/papersize
and then put :pl#66: for letter paper users.
4. The package suggests pbmplus, and we don't seem to have such a package. I
think that netpbm replaced pbmplus.
--
Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
