Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Ghostscript/Netatalk
From: Tim Buller (buller@math.ukans.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 18 1998 - 10:45:26 EST
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Andras Kadinger wrote:
> Tim Buller wrote:
> > What I'm unclear about is how to use pap to send the output of
> > ghostscript to the printer. Is there a way to tell pap in an interface
> > script not to output postscript, i.e. just take the input stream and throw
> > it at the LocalTalk-connected printers?
>
> In my experience (although only with EtherTalk PostScript printers), pap
> itself never changed the input stream while sending it out. Might your
> script force converting to postscript again? Try calling pap directly.
You are indeed correct... if I use send the ghostscript converted .ps file
to the printer using pap on the command line, it works!
I'll post more comprehensive info when I get everything working...
Thanks Andras...
Tim
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Tim Buller buller@math.ukans.edu
Systems Specialist Snow Hall 643, (785) 864-7311
Department of Mathematics University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045
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