On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 01:59:58AM -0700, Mark Yobb wrote: > I am having trouble with printing. I have magicfilter, lprng, and > cti-fthp (spelling?) installed. Text files print fine to my local printer > (HP LazerJet 5L) but when printing postscript files with ghostscript I just > get stepped lines of all these funny commands. I assume these commands are > Adobe postscript commands because I see Adobe copyright usually in there > somewhere. Since I think my printer is a PCL printer? I assume I need > something that will convert to this. Does gs (ghostview) do this? I assume > a filter will also be required that will correctly work with the PCL stuff > as well. Am I totally off base? I am not sure if I require some statement > in my printcap to handle this or not. Magicfilterconfig created my printcap > for me (including seting my if and of) so I am hoping it is OK.
Best to install the `magicfilter' package; it will set up printer filters to use ghostscript and other programs to allow you to print lots of file formats on your printer. I use the laserjet 4L selection with my 5L. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
