What you need is magicfilter. It is available as a Debian package. I have at last got my printer working after much help from Anthony Fok and much agravation. I would be happy to help with other questions on this topic.
On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, John Paul Lorenti wrote: > I've installed debian's ghostscript package and it works by typing the > appropriate commands on the command line but I haven't been able to > interface it with lpr so I can't print directly from Netscape, star > office, etc. I have to create a ps file in netscape and then print it. > StarOffice doesn't seem to have this option ( i haven't RTFM so I could > be wrong) so I can't print from it at all. I wrote a shell script > "printer.sh": > > #!/bin/bash > > gs -q -sDEVICE=cdj550 -sOutputFile=\|lpr -dNOPAUSE $1 -c quit > #Usage: "printer.sh foobar.ps" > > which also works from the command line, but when I set the print command > in netscape or staroffice to this shell script (instead of lpr), nothing > prints (and there are no error messages). I don't know anything about > scripting, so this could be something stupid. I tried "printer.sh" with > permissions 755 and 777. I tried the printing setup script in the > ghostscript 4.3 distribution on their website, but I couldn't get that > to work either. Any help would be much appreciated. > > John Paul > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
