I found an solution to the (at least my) printing problem:
it only occurs if running mandrake in security level 5 (paranoid), if you
change the permissions on /usr/X11R6 to 751 it works. (some more precise stuff
will follow... I didn't figure it out exactly now ...)
On Mit, 22 M�r 2000, you wrote:
> I found exactly the same problem. The gs command in the
> /usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/ps-to-printer.fpi did/could not write anything to the
> tmpfile. If I do
> cat tiger.ps|/usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/ps-to-printer.fpi , it works,
> and the tmpfile is written. I guess there must be something that prevents
> ps-to-printer.fpi writing to the tmpfile. The permission for the tmpfile is as
> follows
>
> -rw------- 1 lp lp 0 Mar 2 10:03 printtmp.yh9LK5
>
> Chunnuan
>
> Sascha Kiedrowski wrote:
>
> > Back again
> >
> > well I found out that the tmpfile is writeable and the commands issued by the
> > script are like the following:
> > cat - | sed "s/[(]%%.*%%[)].*flush//g" |
> > gs -q -sDEVICE=bjc600 -r360x360 -sPAPERSIZE=a4
> > -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -sOutputFile=/tmp/printtmp.2qRNaU
> > -dBitsPerPixel=8 - >/dev/null 2>&1 ; cat /tmp/printtmp.2qRNaU ; rm
> > /tmp/printtmp.2qRNaU
> >
> > If I try to issue the command
> > gs -q -sDEVICE=bjc600 -r360x360 -sPAPERSIZE=a4
> > -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -sOutputFile=<my file>
> > -dBitsPerPixel=8
> > everything works fine.
> > My problem is, I don't understand the "cat - | ..." part from the first
> > script. I think it sort of "feeds" the file into gs, but I don't know.
> > (I can't figure out any other part of the script where the file-to-print get's
> > into the script.
> >
> > On Sam, 18 M�r 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > Second, this is just a stab in the dark, but when the tempfile remains
> > > do you have proper permissions to write to it?
> > >
> > > Finally, since you found the script & everything, I'd take a gander at
> > > the actual ghostcript input and output.
> > >
> > > You see that "eval" command at the end? Well, there is presumably
> > > where the problem is.
> > >
> > > Add some lines to the script, like this:
> > >
> > > echo mpage_cmd: $mpage_cmd
> > > echo gs command: gs -q -sDEVICE=$GSDEVICE \
> > > -r$RESOLUTION \
> > > -sPAPERSIZE=$PAPERSIZE \
> > > -dNOPAUSE \
> > > -dSAFER \
> > > -sOutputFile=$TMPFILE \
> > > $COLOR \
> > > $EXTRA_GS_OPTIONS -
> > >
> > > This will tell you what the spooler is actually trying to *do* to print
> > > the text. Then you can try the commands yourself and see if you get
> > > some coherent error messages and go from there.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > > | Hello around there,
> > > |
> > > | I recently set up a mandrake 7 box and it seems it is impossible to print
> > > | anything but plain ascii.
> > > | I used printtool to set up my canon bjc-4000 (using the suggested driver). I am
> > > | not able to print the ps-testpage (or any other ps-file), but ascii works fine.
> > > | After tracking down the bug I ended up in
> > > | '/usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/ps-to-printer.fpi' . It seems it creates a
> > > | tmpfile (mktemp-command from line 45), which never gets any input. (I deleted
> > > | the command 'rm $TMPFILE' from line 131 and the file which remained had size 0
> > > | bytes.)
> > > |
> > > | So, any idea out there?
> > > |
> > > | THXIA Sascha Kiedrowski
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