Re: postscript printing through magicfilter fails

[Alan Eugene Davis <adavis@netpci.com>]

I had a similar problem.  I ended up compiling gs6.0 and gv
("unstable" system), and editing the magic filter for the postscript
lines.  I'm not sure I did the right thing, but with the changes I
did, it worked.  

I tried this: change the filter in /etc/magicfilter/(whatever) for the
postscript lines, with the explicit name of the printer instead of
this @cdj550.upp (I used "-Plp" and I might have deleted "quit" from
the end of the line.

# PostScript
0       %!              filter  /usr/bin/gs  @cdj550.upp -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -s
OutputFile=- - -c quit 
0       \004%!          filter  /usr/bin/gs  @cdj550.upp -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -s
OutputFile=- - -c quit 

# PDF
0       %PDF            fpipe   /usr/bin/gs  @cdj550.upp -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -s
OutputFile=- $FILE -c quit 


My solution may not work for you, but it worked for me.  It may be
completely wrong, for which I apologize for your time.  (After
spending my weekend working on this).

Alan

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