Re: Wordperfect and LaserJet 6L

[Ajit Krishnan <akrishna@julian.no.spam.uwo.ca>]

Carl Mummert [mummert@cs.wcu.edu] wrote:
> 
> Wordperfect is attempting to print some PJL commands, and the filter
> is killing them.

aah, i see what you're saying...

> One possibility is that wordperfect is printing the command
> 'switch to postscript mode' before it begins the postscript
> output; some of the drivers for HP 4000 printers do this
> (two lines of pjl, 400+ lines of psotscript, 2 lines of pjl).
> If this is the case, you can write a small filter to remove
> the pjl commands from top and bottom, and set up a second 
> printer in /etc/printcap that has a filter set to strip
> the pjl, and then pass on the rest to he normal printer.

i'm not sure exactly how to do this, but i'm sure i can find it in the manpages. However, i was using wordperfect on redhat 5.2 a few months back, and I didn't have this problem. At the time, i used their printtool gui to choose my printer....why would it work on rh but cause problems in debian?

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ajit

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