Subject: [netatalk-admins] netatalk server's ppd vs clients' ppd
From: Craig Johnston (caj@lfn.org)
Date: Tue Nov 03 1998 - 16:18:25 EST
Ok -- I'm serving out an HPLJ 6MP to a bunch of macs over an ethernet
with a FreeBSD box running netatalk 1.4b2.
The problem is that some apps on the mac clients are sending level 3
postscript rather than level 2. The printer only supports level 2,
and the ppd file I specify in papd.conf specifies level 2.
Now, when the clients print to the server, shouldn't they be asking
papd about the printer, getting back the info that it only supports
up to level 2, and sending level 2 postscript instead of level 3?
Or do the clients need local .ppd files for the printer? (why should they?)
The offending programs are Adobe Pagemaker and Adobe Photoshop --
I have checked that they are indeed producing legit level 3 output.
Is there a standard way for mac apps to decide what sort of PS they are
going to output? Why are these apps apparently failing to determine
they can't just shoot out level 3?
Is it in fact that all apps are sending whatever they like, and that
just happens to almost always be ps <= level 2, and these 2 apps are
the only ones that will generate level 3? Is it up to the app to find
a .ppd file and modify its output accordingly? Up to the OS?
thanks,
Craig
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