What distribution are you running? Packages for lprng a2ps lippng and ghostscript exist for Mandrake slackware Debian Redhat SUSE and others. Regards, Kerry. On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:10:15PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote: > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
