printer

[Kerry Hoath]

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!
> > >
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