PS printing to non PS printer on 5.2

[Lanny Baron]

Have you tried to install apsfilter? /usr/ports/print/apsfilter

We use it in our office for BSD and for all Windows stations printing
via Samba.

Regards,
Lanny 


On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 18:02, Chris wrote:
> Hell all,
> 
> I'm having trouble getting gs to print with the instructions in the 
> handbook. While I can print simple text to the printer I am unable to 
> print postscript.
> 
> The same script works fine on 4.x I have now tried this on 5.1 and 5.2.1 
> and both result in the same errors;
> 
>        AFPL Ghostscript 8.11: **** Could not open the file /dev/fd/3 .
>        Error: /invalidfileaccess in --.outputpage--
> 
> 
> now on 5.x we do not have /dev/fd/3 as required by the hand book;
> 
>      /usr/local/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=djet500 \
>         -sOutputFile=/dev/fd/3 - && exit 0
> 
> I have also tried the following...
> 
>     /usr/local/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=ljet4 \
>         -sOutputFile=- - | dd obs=8k && exit 0
> 
> which was sugjested by Poul-Henning. I get garbaje in the log file wich I assume is the HP PCL5 control characters.
> 
> 
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> 
> Can someone please help.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> 
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