On Tue, 25 May 1999, Mike O'Donnell wrote: > > The problem was the filter /etc/magicfilterstylus_color_720dpi-filter, > from magicfilter version 1.2-28. It's > good for Ghostscript version 3.33, and possibly 4.03, but not 5.50 > which I am running. I replaced the > PostScript section of the filter by > > 0 %! filter /usr/bin/gs @stc.upp > -sOutputFile=\|"cat 1>&3" - 3>&1 1>&2 -c quit > 0 \004%! filter /usr/bin/gs @stc.upp > -sOutputFile=\|"cat 1>&3" - 3>&1 1>&2 -c quit > # PDF > 0 %PDF fpipe /usr/bin/gs @stc.upp > -sOutputFile=\|"cat 1>&3" $FILE 3>&1 1>&2 -c quit > > using options that I found in a sample gs command at > http://eunuchs.org/epson/index.html.. > > With this change, the filter prints PostScript (formerly, it produced > infinite page ejects). There is still a flaw in > the printing of text by the final default entry: there is no page > eject at the end. It's clear how to write a script > using cat to take care of this, but there should be a more elegant > solution.
i had this same problem using an Epson Stylus Color 600 with the newest gs/magicfilter: infinite formfeeds when trying to print postscript files. After looking through quite a few docs and printing a few test pages, i determined that the magic filter should be using the stc600pl.upp and stc600p.upp profiles (located in /usr/lib/ghostscript/5.10). For different printers, you'd obviously use different profiles. Besides stc.upp, you may want to try stcany.upp and stc_h.upp with your 400. Also, note that stc.upp is a 360dpi profile, so putting it in stylus_color_720dpi-filter is a little misleading ;) So, i copied stylus_color_360dpi-filter and stylus_color_720dpi-filter to stylus_color600_360dpi-filter and stylus_color600_720dpi-filter, respectively. Then i changed the lines like this: --stylus_color600_360dpi-filter-- # PostScript 0 %! filter /usr/bin/gs @stc600pl.upp -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=- - -c quit 0 \004%! filter /usr/bin/gs @stc600pl.upp -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=- - -c quit # PDF 0 %PDF fpipe /usr/bin/gs @stc600pl.upp -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=- $FILE -c quit --stylus_color600_720dpi-filter-- # PostScript 0 %! filter /usr/bin/gs @stc600p.upp -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=- - -c quit 0 \004%! filter /usr/bin/gs @stc600p.upp -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=- - -c quit # PDF 0 %PDF fpipe /usr/bin/gs @stc600p.upp -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=- $FILE -c quit i had considered filing a bug report, but when i checked the database it looked like someone was already reporting it...
