On Friday 05 November 2004 14:30, Rich Rudnick wrote: > "You do not need Magicfilter for CUPS. CUPS has its own filtering > system and you can send text, PostScript, PDF, HP/GL-2, and many image > formats directly to a CUPS queue. See also the special options which > CUPS provides for text, HP/GL-2, and images > (http://localhost:631/sum.html, options dialogs of XPP, QtCUPS, > kprinter, and GTKlp)." > > <Plug> I've used all of the programs cited above at one time or the > other, and use gtklp daily. It provides access to all options on my > printers, and makes it trivial to create instances (templates). > </Plug>
I've removed package magicfilter, installed the second printer "ps" using the CUPS web interface, and symlinked /etc/printcap to /var/run/cups/printcap, and I'm getting one strange problem: "lpr -P ps foo.ps" works, "dvips -P ps foo.dvi" works, "a2ps install" works (using the Brother driver), but $ a2ps -P ps install [install (plain): 1 page on 1 sheet] lp: unable to print file: client-error-bad-request [Total: 1 page on 1 sheet] sent to the printer `ps' [8 lines wrapped] However I can use "a2ps -o foo.ps ; lpr -P ps foo.ps" to produce the output that the command above ought to produce. Any idea why "a2ps -P ps" doesn't work? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
