[X-Unix] printing question.

Warren Pollans warren at meyer-pollans.net
Sun Feb 29 18:12:29 PST 2004


Thanks, that makes sense.

I installed "ESP Ghostscript 7.05" to no avail  :(

How do I tell lpr/lp to use gs?


On Sunday, Feb 29, 2004, at 18:21 US/Eastern, Alex wrote:

>
> On Sunday, Feb 29, 2004, at 13:49 Canada/Eastern, Warren Pollans wrote:
>
>> THE PROBLEM:  I can have a2ps print to a file (postscript) - and view 
>> and print that file from MacGhostview.  HOWEVER, I can't print that 
>> file via lpr from the commandline - or directly using a2ps (print to 
>> default printer instead of file) - PrintCenter shows no activity.
>
> Sounds like you need a PostScript interpreter. See 
> <http://www.cups.org/ghostscript.php>.
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