Re: Aladdin Ghostscript 5.50
On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Jason Dawe wrote:
> I have been trying to get my dot-matrix Panasonic KX-P1123 printer to
> work all night. After re-compiling the Kernel again, my printer prints
> regular ASCII text fine. Through Netscape, I just get a bunch of
> garbage. (Well, real words but they don't make sense).
>
> After reading numerous HOW-TO's I discovered I need to use a program
> called Ghostscript to emulate Postscript. I have downloaded the unix
> version of postscript. (I guess I needed the unix one, the only other
> ones were the mac and ms-dos/win versions)
>
> I extracted ghostscript-5.50.tar in /usr/src/gs5.50
> Now I have loads of C-source code and stuff. The HTM documentation goes
> all over the place talking about makefiles and stuff. I'm relatively new
> at Linux, so that lost me. I tried "make" "make install" "gcc gs.c -o
> gs" none of it helped.
>
> I'm stuck. What should I do now?
Assuming that you have installed Debian Linux (a reasonable assumption
considering the list where you posted your question):
1. Delete all the stuff you just installed.
2. Run dselect and install the Debian gs-aladdin, gs-fonts and
magicfilter packages.
3. As I recall, the KP-1123 will emulate an Epson LQ printer, so try the
epsonlq selection in magicfilter.
Bob
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