Re: Printing with gs

[Britton <fsblk@aurora.alaska.edu>]

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
> 
> 
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