ghostscript upgrade.

[Malcolm Kay]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:30, Gary D Kline wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 09:18:48PM -0700, Gary D Kline wrote:
> > 	Hi Gang,
> >
> > 	I just upgraded ghostscript for the first time in at least
> > 	a few years...  I installed the ghostscript-gnu for my old
> > 	hp500.
> >
> > 	In /usr/local/libxec/hpif, part of my gs line is:
> >
> > 	/usr/local/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q  -sDEVICE=djet500

> >
> > 	only trying to print Postscript gives me this err:
> >
> > 	"Unknown device: dj500"
> >
> > 	Can anybody help me get this fixed??
> >
> > 	thannks much,
>
> 	   NB: I solved my problem by using ghostscript-afpl,
> 	   but still don't understand why -gnu fails.  Can
> 	   anyone point me at the proper docs?  tia, --gary

The original error message looks wrong if you specified:
    -sDEVICE=djet500
I get your error message only when specifying the device as
    -sDEVICE=dj500

On the other hand with the gnu-ghostscript installed here
with a printer device I must specify an output and input or a different error 
is anounced. Output does not default to stdout:
    -sOutputFile=-  -
is required for output to stdout from stdin. By adding this to your command 
line it works here with gnu version 6.52_4.

Note that:
   gs -h
will list all devices known to your particular installation
of ghostscript. 

Malcolm Kay