Re: CUPS - unable to print postscript file
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 16:39:27 -0400
Andy Saxena <andyML@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> I got my printer to work and I thought I was done. Guess not. I can
> take text files and pipe them through enscript and they print just
> fine. However
>
> $ lp somepsfile.ps
>
> gives me rows of barcode-like lines on the printout. I read the user
> manual and it said that CUPS understands the postscript filetype
> directly. I assume this means that the above command should give the
> proper output.
All I can say is that you're not alone. My non-solution has been to
print directly from the application, say, kword or abiword. I suspect it
has something to do with the ghostscript version used by cups.
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