Re: Dj660c-filter and stepping

[Alan Tam <alantam@usa.net>]

Hi Bob,

        My answer to your question is no and yes.
        No, I don't have gs installed by the time I learn the command. When I
read the
/etc/magicfilter/dj550c-filter I found 2 lines that goes with gs, then I know
for
PostScript printing it requires GhostScript. At first, I don't know what are
the difference between gs and gs-aladdin package. I downloaded 2 and installed
2 by
typing gs the screen freezes at a white blank page. After I studied the dpkg
--info of these 2 packages I realized that they are in conflict to each other
from there I selected gs-aladdin instead of gs.
        Now I have gs (aladdin) installed, but doing ' gs  ' or ' gs
Tutorial.ps ' or
' gs -sDEVICE=cdj550 Tutorial.ps ' I got
Unknown paper size:(A4).
Unrecoverable error: stack under flow in dup.
Unexpected interpreter error -17
Error object: dup(d84)name(0x818b1e8#508)
Execution stack at 0x818850c:
....    ....    ....    ....        (numbers, offsets and codes same for the
above commands)
Dictionary stack at 0x8188434:
....    ....    ....    ....        (numbers, offsets and codes same for the
above commands)

        What's wrong with it ?
        I have Debian 2.0.34 with base installation on it (no Window Maker,
nor
X windows. Because I want to learn from the basic and am trying to
compile the kernel to suit my personal needs. But before that I need to read
the
docs about kernel compile by printing it on papers.)
        From the install.txt.gz file of gs-aladdin, it says ( in the Unix
section ) we
have to compile the source. Do I really have to do it ? Isn't all the
executables
in the package are ready to go ?

        Thanks Bob
        Alan

Bob Nielsen wrote:

> Do you have gs (or preferably gs-aladdin) installed?  That is necessary
> for the man -t output to print, since -t converts it to PostScript.
>
> Keep at it and you will soon learn the Unix/Linux commands.  Most of us
> started from a DOS background.
>
> Bob
>
> On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Alan Tam wrote:
>
> > Hi Bob,
> >
> >         Thank you for your info, but the command ' man -t printcap|lpr '
> > didn't work.
> > With your hint I tried ' man printcap|lpr ' it works. Printing perfectly
> > without any stepping at all.
> >
> >         Thanks anyway. Since I am new to Linux, I don't know the command
> > style in Unix/GNU/Linux. Now I know the symbol '|' means piping. In Dos
> > I usually use
> > 'type printcap > lpt1' and that will print to the printer.
> >
> >         Thank you.
> >
> >         Alan
> >
> > On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Alan Tam wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > >         Is there a filter for HP Deskjet 660C in the Debian Packages ?
> >
> > > So far I can get from magicfilter_1.2-24.deb is dj550c-filter.
> > >
> > >         I am trying to print the manual pages through my HP Deskjet
> > > 660c. A
> > > question on how to eliminate the stepping effect when I issue the
> > > command
> > > man printcap > /dev/lp1
> >
> > The reason you are getting the stepping is that this is going as raw
> > data
> > to the printer, not through any filter. You need to pipe it through lpr,
> >
> > not send it directly to /dev/lp1.
> >
> > The ghostscript printer compatibility page
> > (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html) indicates that the cdj550
> > driver (which is called by dj550c-filter) is the correct one to use with
> >
> > the 660C, so you should use the dj550c-filter in magicfilter.
> >
> > To print a man page, use 'man -t printcap|lpr'.
> >
> > >
> > >         From the Printing-HowTo, there is an example
> > > #!perl
> > > #The above line should really have the whole path to perl
> > > #This script must be executable: chmod 755 filter
> > > while (<STDIN>){chop $_; print "$_\r\n";);
> > > #You might also want to end with a form feed: print "\f";
> > >
> > > Should I leave the STDIN as is or replace it with lp1 or something
> > else
> > > ?
> >
> > The easy way is to let magicfilter do the work for you.
> >
> > Bob
> >
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