Hi! Trying to kill the keyboard, pbnt@mindspring.com produced:
Chris Parman wrote:
Couldn't find the Postscript-Emulator"Ghostscript". You can only use real Postscript printers!
That sounds like you did not install ghostscript. The packages have the names gs_..., e.g. gs_x11-5.10-0 gs_fonts-5.10-0 gs_lib-5.10-0 (these 3 are on my system) The 5.10's are not on the CD-ROM (lizence problems) but aviable from the SuSE FTP site(s), as the SDB page (if you installed it) file://localhost/usr/doc/support-db/sdb_e/new_gs.html shows. The job of ghostscript within the aps-filter is to re-convert from postscript into the native languages of the printers. If your printer is supported by the new gostscript but not really by the old one, get the new one, it's worth it. (At least it was for my EPSON LQ-850)
I know it's a drastic solution but have you considered reinstalling Linux? Sometimes that's all that works for me. In the meanwhile I'll keep you in mind.
Ah, but that won't help here. It won't help in this special case (because ghostscript won't be installed after the reinstall, either) nor is reinstalling (after you have done any amount of configurating) a viable option. Of course, it might be OK if you do it just after you installed it the first time ... just to do it right this time, but generally it won't solve problems. Anyway, you pay too much if you do it. IMHO. Usually a problem can be solved by looking at the error messages, the log file, the documentations/FAQs/etc. and then checking things. And you learn a lot along the way, too. :) (And, this is not (buggy)-binary-only Windows ...) -Wolfgang -- PGP 2 welcome: Mail me, subject "send PGP-key". If you've nothing at all to hide, you must be boring. Unsolicited Bulk E-Mails: *You* pay for ads you never wanted. Is our economy _so_ weak we have to tolerate SPAMMERS? I guess not. -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e