On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 01:21:04AM -0400, Rick Green beat on the keyboard:
Some more specific info will help us help you better. Yes, you're absolutely right - printing is a maze of twisty passages! There are a few tools which will help lay down a working config, if you've got a common, supported printer. Congratulations on getting ascii data successfully piped out the right port to the printer. Next step is to set up a spooler, and then arrange for protocol translation, so that you can print postscript, which most of the fancier programs (gimp, netscape, staroffice) like to output. Make sure you have one of the spoolers installed, either lprold, which is the SuSE default, or lprng, which is also on the CD. Install ghostscript. There are several variants, depending on your display. All of the variants will print, they only vary in whether you want to preview using native VGA tools, or X based tools. If you can't decide, there's always gs_both. (There are several related packages, fonts, etc. In yast, select your gs_ package, press f5, then select 'auto'. It'll grab the rest for you.) I strongly recommend installing apsfilter. This is the 'glue' that pulls it all together. It builds an extremely complicated printcap, and I
I have to agree...apsfilter is awesome. You can also run apsfilter's setup program from /usr/lib/apsfilter/SETUP. This may help you out quite a bit. -- _ _ __ _____ _____ ___| |_ | '__| / __\ \ /\ / / _ \/ _ \ __| | | _ \__ \\ V V / __/ __/ |_ |_|(_) |___/ \_/\_/ \___|\___|\__| rsweet@socal.rr.com "unix soit qui mal y pense."