On 13 Oct 2002, Keith Winston wrote: =>On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 17:37, steveo@syslang.net wrote: =>> For the life of me I just can't print a simple doc that just sez hello =>> world. If I try to print it, my postscript printer just chugs for a while =>> and no paper comes out. If I try to view the output postscript with gv or =>> ghostscript I get a ghostscript interpreter error. Does anyopne have a =>> clue what's going on? => =>I haven't had any problems printing from openoffice. I am using CUPS =>and my printer is a Lexmark E322 laser (native postscript). => =>Are you using lpd or CUPS? => I am using CUPS also. I even tried cat fn.ps > /dev/lp0 and nothing comes out. I'm actually more concerned about the fact that gv/ghostview says Error: PostScript interpreter failed in main window. In the meantime I found a pain-in-the-ass workaround. For some reason ps2pdf works even though ghostscript fails. From there, xpdf can convert it back to PostScript which does both view and print. It sucks to be me. :-( -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo@syslang.net
