Hello, I recompiled ghostpdl with fonts and I have done print from my DOSapplication to /tmpwith x.pclasoutput. After that I have done command pcl6..... and I Got message that it cannot read x.pcl file which is actually the same that I sent you already. Everything is done as root so permissions are not issue. best wishes, Vedran On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik <franta@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Vedran Vucic wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Please find attached output of my DOS application. >> Fonts are in /usr/local/ghostpdl-8.71/urwfonts >> >> I am not sure that pcl6 is aware oftheirlocation. >> >> I still have the same error message. >> >> Thanks, >> >> vedran >> >> >> >> >> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik <franta@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Vedran Vucic wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I installed ghostpdl properly. >>>> When I do: >>>> $_lpt1='cat >/tmp/x.pcl' >>>> I get in /tmp folder file that is output from the program and it is >>>> actually text file. >>>> >>>> When I do other command: >>>> pcl6 -sDEVICE=pswrite -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile=x.ps x.pcl >>>> I got the following error message: >>>> Warning interpreter exited with error code -1 >>>> Flushing to end of job >>>> >>>> Obviously interpreter is an issue. >>>> >>>> I think that we are very close to the solution. DO you have any idea >>>> about -1 error code of interpreter? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Vedran >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik <franta@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> Vedran Vucic wrote: >>>>>> Hello, >>>>>> >>>>>> When I corrected as you mentioned dosemu started normally. I entered >>>>>> my DOS application and tried toprint, but in terminal I have seen >>>>>> error message that pcl6 command is not found. >>>>>> Any suggestion? Any link or slink needed for that purpose? Is there >>>>>> any path tweaking required? >>>>> >>>>> You wrote before You build ghostpdl package itself. >>>>> Was compiled properly? >>>>> >>>>> Was properly installed? >>>>> >>>>> Is pcl6 binary runnable? >>>>> >>>>> Is pcl6 binary in PATH in dosemu environment? (when no, you can specify >>>>> absolute path, e.g. $_lpt1='/my/path/pcl6 ... >>>>> >>>>> You should probably in this phase tune both things, dosemu and >>>>> pcl6/ghostpdl, separately: >>>>> >>>>> 1) in dosemu.conf lpt specification configure output to normal file: >>>>> >>>>> $_lpt1='cat >/tmp/x.pcl' >>>>> >>>>> and verify that file "/tmp/x.pcl" is rightly created and is in PCL format. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 2) verify that pcl6 command work right by manually creating postscript >>>>> file from previous PCL: >>>>> >>>>> pcl6 -sDEVICE=pswrite -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile=x.ps x.pcl >>>>> >>>>> and again verify that file "/tmp/x.pcl" is rightly created and is in >>>>> postscript format >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 3) verify this postscript file printing: >>>>> >>>>> lpr -P Laserprinter x.ps >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> When all this steps works, You can set final "$_lpt1='....'" command in >>>>> dosemu.conf, as you have now. >>>>> >>>>> !!ATTENTION!! Sorry for mistake in all my previous mails: I incorrectly >>>>> specify "-sDEVICE=" parameter to "pdfwrite", which is obviously bad (I >>>>> clipboard copy this from my cfg, where I use pcl6 to create PDF >>>>> documents from DOS print output). >>>>> Right parameter value should be "pswrite": >>>>> >>>>> $_lpt1='pcl6 -sDEVICE=pswrite -dNOPAUSE -sPAPERSIZE=a4 >>>>> -sOutputFile="|lpr -P YourPrinter1" -' >>>>> >>>>> FH >>> >>> I never got with ghostpdl to any bigger problems and not sure how >>> diagnose your. >>> >>> You can try some pcl6 (gs) debug switches, here is their doc: >>> http://svn.ghostscript.com/ghostscript/trunk/gs/doc/Use.htm#Debug_switches >>> You can study ghostpdl source code. >>> >>> Can you send me (or past somewhere for download) your PCL output from >>> DOS app? I can probe convert it with my ghostpdl build. >>> >>> Have you installed and rightly configured URW TTF fonts? ghostpdl >>> package require them. > > My pcl6 works likely OK (see its output at: > http://www.hanzlici.cz/tmp/x.ps.bz2 > ), there is probably some wrong in your ghostpdl package. > > Regarding TTF fonts location - problem may be there, you should correct > their path, this which is defined in ghostpdl source codes seems > appropriate for windos build. > > I have located fonts in "/usr/share/fonts/urw-ttf/", then I patched > "pl/pjparse.c" as you can see in attached patch (there are some other > smaller patches, as I want use zlib and png system shared libraries > etc., and use some paths as conventional in my distro (Fedora). > > SPEC file, which describe how I build ghostpdl and font RPM packages, is > contained in source rpm > (http://www.hanzlici.cz/packages/fedora/ghostpdl/14/ghostpdl-8.71-2.fc14.src.rpm) > or i got it for you to > http://www.hanzlici.cz/tmp/ghostpdl-8.71-fc14.spec > Notice instaled libpaper-devel, freeglut-devel, expat-devel, > libjpeg-devel, libpng-devel and zlib-devel packages. > > At http://www.hanzlici.cz/packages/fedora/ghostpdl/14/ are my ghostpdl > RPM packages for current Fedora version (14; I have at this site dosemu > RPM packages as well) > > Hope this help. > Franta Hanzlik > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
