bad surprise using ghostview (gv)
Hi to Everyone,
I have quite often used 'gv' (ghostview) up to about a year and a half
ago or so. I displayed ps files with it, and then printed them. To be
more precise, the ps files were ancestry charts generated by a genealogy
software called 'lifelines'. Everything went OK at that time.
But this no longer works well. 'gv' still displays those charts allright
on the screen, but, if I print them, they come out Black and White with
a mediocre printing quality.
A year and a half ago, when everything printed OK, I was running Debian
Sarge. Since then I have installed Lenny (a new install, not just an
upgrade). My printer is the same : DeskJet-1120C ; it still works OK
with other apps and still prints color when using OO.org or the GIMP.
The man pages of 'gv' don't mention anything particular about printing.
To display lifelines generated ps files, I just type:
gv myfile.ps
and the file does display nicely with its colors.
Then I click onto the box 'FILE' and 'Print Document', which is exactly
what I used to do before. Then a dialog box comes in, proposing to write
a print command, which starts with 'lpr'. I then add '-PDeskJet-1120C'
to the already displayed 'lpr', which gives: lpr -PDeskJet-1120C.
If, discarding the use of 'gv', I just print the ps file directly as
follows:
lpr -PDeskJet-1120C myfile.ps
I get exactly the same printing result (poor quality, black and white)
The man pages of 'lpr' make mention of a '-o' argument that - if I
caught it well - should allow to precise details, but no more is said
about this. In any case, as previously said, I used to be able to
directly print with colours using 'gv'.
The printer is being reckognised allright, and, if I make a spelling
mistake, for instance if I write 'deskJet-1120C' or 'DeskJet_1120C', I
get error messages saying that the printer is not found. In the other
hand, if I write nothing in front of 'lpr', it still prints, with the
same poor quality as if using the proper printer name.
Would I be missing a GV or GS related library, or is there a know
problem or bug with newer versions of gv/gs (well, I mean newer than in
Sarge time)
Thanks in advance for your help.
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