Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (720 mails)

[dana@xxxxxxx (Dana J. Laude)]

S Pawlowicz wrote:

> Hello,
>       I sent this in the other day, and I am sorry for resubmitting it,
> but, I am at my wits end. Is anyone else having problems with apsfilter
> and/or A2PS or is it just me???  Jim Hatridge is trying to help me but,
> I think we are in the same boat.
>
> I really want to use and support Linux. I have purchased SuSE 5.1,
> Infomagic dev. resource, RedHat 5, Caldera Open Linux base, and Linux
> Pro 5.4. Not to mention way too many books that all seem to cost $40.00
> each. The guys at the SoftPro bookstore must love me. I even tried the
> Debian dist. that came on a BOOT magazine cd a while back. And of all
> these I like SuSE the best. If I could only get apsfilter working
> correctly I  would be HAPPY. Until I can sort out SuSE, I guess win95,
> OS/2, and RedHat 5.0 are going to have to stay on my other
> partitions...But, damn! I need the space.
>
> Steve
>
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>
> Subject: apsfilter problem
> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 07:48:32 -0500
> From: S Pawlowicz <pwlwcz@xxxxxxx>
> To: "suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx" <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Hello,
>      I am having a problem with apsfilter and need some help. I set it
> up with YAST. I'm using the eps9high driver on a nine pin panasonic dot
> matrix printer.  I have also tried the epson driver and the SETUP
> program for apsfilter. I can print text using :  lpr -Praw
> (my-text-file), or lpr (my-postscript-file). I can also print text using
> : a2ps (various command line options) (my-text-file). It seems that the
> a2ps options I specified in apsfilterrc and apsfilterrc.eps9high don't
> work. lpr command works with .ps files and with text files using -Praw
> command line option only, -Plp and -Pascii don't work. My etc/printcap
> file looks correct. Also the print button in Netscape 4.04 seems to work
> fine, the fonts are too small but, I'm not worried about that right now.
> I was under the impression that the "lpr" command would work with any
> file type. Isn't that the purpose of apsfilter??? I seem to be able to
> print anything by explicitly specifying my needs at the command line. I
> can print graphics from netscape.  Am I using this incorrectly or is
> something not set up right???
>
> I would appreciate any assistance,
>  Steve

I have the same problem.  With RH 5.0 I had NO problems with my
printer.  S.u.S.E. 5.0 is another story.  I can print from StarOffice
4.0 fine, anything else..., forget it.  I have a TI MicroWriter which
is HP IIp compatible btw.

Dana


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