Re: dvips printing problem: SOLVED!!
On Fri, 05 Oct 2001, Dale Morris wrote:
> I posted this sometime back and was never able to get a satisfactory
> solution. Maybe someone can give me some better pointers now..
>
> When I try to print a file using dvips quantum.dvi command, what prints
> out is the following:
> %!PS-Adobe-2.0
> %%Creator: dvips(k) 5.86d Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software
> %%Title: quantum.dvi
> %%Pages: 1
> %%PageOrder: Ascend
> ....(more header then a page full of misc garbage)
>
> When I go to the www.radicaleye.com page, it says if you are receiving
> the %!PS at the beginning of a file and you don't know how to print it,
> you need to install GhostScript.
>
> When I was running stable the dvips command would print fine. After
> upgrading to woody, I encountered this problem. I tried upgrading to
> sid, but no luck, same problem.
Finally this is working! My solution was to go to install ghostscipt 7.0
using alien and dpkg. Still didn't work so I installed redhat
printtool.. sort of worked, printed a message about no file name at the
top of my letter, then printed the letter correctly. Then I went to the
cups website downloaded the cups .deb package, removed lprng and
apsfilter and installed cups.
Typed http://localhost:631 in netscape
added a printer on lp
my file quantum.dvi printed properly with the command dvips quantum.dvi
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