Re: print, gs and svgalib.
> I'm using magicfilter to print, which in turns uses gs-aladdin, which uses
> svgalib.
> The problem is svgalib keeps writing things like 'Using VGA driver' or
> other messages. Those get back to lpr and end up printed at the beginning
> of whatever it was I wanted to print.
>
> Is there a way to silence svgalib so as not to have this gibberish on
> everything I want to print ? (At the moment, I'm using cat file.ps |
> filter > /dev/lp1, which is somewhat more annoying than lpr file.ps).
>
> Mat
Hi,
i have found the following solution of your problem in
gnu.dhostscript.bug: modify your filter file (mine is
/usr/sbin/ibmpro-filter) so that it looks like:
# PostScript
0 %! filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r120x72 -sDEVICE=ibmpro -sOutputFile=\|"cat 1>&3" - 3>&1 1>&2
I have tested it on my machine an it works: the messages
of svgalib are redirected to the stderr, so they are not sent to the
printer.
Regards,
Marco
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From: george@biomed.abdn.ac.uk (George Cameron)
Subject: Re: Quiet mode not so quite
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 16:02:25 -0400
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In earlier versions of ghostscript, using -sOutputFile=- was
definitely not a good idea, for exactly this reason (i.e. you
can't separate any programmed output from printer output). It's
been a while since I've had any time to look at ghostscript
internals to see whether this has been changed, but assuming it
has not, you could employ the method used in unix-lpr.sh, which
simplifies to:
/opt/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=bjc800 -r360
-sOutputFile=\|"cat 1>&3" - 3>&1 1>&2
This merges any programmed or other text output with the stderr
stream and redirects only the printer output to the stdout stream.
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Hope it helps -
George
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