Hi. Got all the binaries for ghostscript, however getting undefined-symbol-type errors in libpng. Every time I run ghostscript I get: Error in loading shared libraries: libpng.so.3: undefined symbol _dso_handle. This also happens when I try to run hpijs. Also, I attempted to compile a2ps, but got errors related to a missing /usr/local/a2ps-4.13/runrunflex. I checked the web page, but didn't find any references to dependencies. Any ideas as to why this may be happening? Thanks! On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote: > No you run a2ps pipe that to ghostscript > and tell ghostscript to print to the printer. > Basically printers in Linux are like printers in dos, if your application wants to > print stuff it needs a driver or set of programs to do so. > ghostscript is the most common. > On LInux systems you usually run a print spooler like lpr or lprng > rather than dumping stuff out the port. This way you can print from windows to the > box and also queue up print jobs. > Normally the file is piped to lpr like this: > cat foo.ps|lpr > the spooling system runs a special magic filter to decide what to do with the file > and what filters to run. An example is "the file is postscript > render it to deskjet output" or "This is dvi > run it through dvilj" > You configure this in /etc/printcap. > If you only want to print from a windows box just install lprng > samba and the right drivers under windows and windows can send > raw dj output to the print system which should pass it through > unmodified to the printer. > Windows has a system called uniprint which handles the > device independant nature of windows printing. I hear cups can do this for > Linux but I don't know specifics. > Basically you just hit file print under Windows and the > operating system handles the icky details of format conversion from word to > the control set required by your printer. > Under LInux you do it yourself witha little help from some scripts but normally > you need to know what is going on behind the sceens, > "This printer prints pcl so to get from text to pcl we go text to postscript with a2ps then ps to pcl with ghostscript." > I should read the printing howto sometime see what it says, but I had my printers set up > back in 1993 before that document came out. > > Regards, Kerry. > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:00:22PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote: > > Hi all. Well dug up ghostscript, libjpeg, libpng, and zlib 1.13 and built > > them. I also got hpijs, because the printing howto had mentioned something > > along the lines of that it contained the deskjet driver (s). If I were to > > load the deskjet module > > (s), what would the filenames be? I'll keep looking around but I didn't > > see anything related to deskjet. But once I do this I can just dig up > > something like a2ps and pipe it to lp0 using lpr? Thanks! > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au > ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
