Re: Netscape Printing
You are on the right way. ghostscript is used by a print filter
(apsfilter, magicfilter or lprng) to translate PostScript for your
non-PostScript printer.
If you will print HTML, you can use Jan Karrman's html2ps. It's possible,
that Netscape itself use this nifty utility.
-Egon
On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Jason Dawe wrote:
> Yesterday I had questions on installing Aladdin Ghostscript 5.50. Bob
> Nielsen answered my questions, but I'm not even sure if I'm heading in
> the right direction.
>
> I have a Panasonic KX-P1123, its old and crappy but that's what I have.
> All I want to do is be able to print in Netscape. When I try, for
> example to print the Debian start page I get a sheet looking something
> like this:
>
> %!PS-Adobe-3.0
> %%BoundingBox: 54 72 558 720
> %%Creator: Mozilla (NetScape) HTML->PS
> -I'll skip some un-needed stuff-
> %%EndComments
> %%BegainProlog
> [ /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef
> /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef
> /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef
> /.notdef /.notdef /.notdef
> -Plus many more /.notdef's-
> /parenleft /parenright /asterisk /plus /comma /hyphen /period /slash
> /zero /one /two /three /four /five /six /seven /eight /nine /colon
> -It goes on and on like this.-
>
> Anyway, it seems to me that this is postscript and my printer is not
> understanding it. So I got Ghostscript, which I installed but I don't
> even know if that was the right thing to do? The reason I thought the
> above was postscript is the lines like %!PS-Adobe-3.0 and HTML->PS am I
> right?
>
> Was ghostscript what I needed to get?
>
> If it was, how do I use ghostscript to convert the above? I've looked at
> documentation and stuff. I'm stumped. And I'll I'm trying to do is print
> though Netscape.
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