Hello,

I finally got my LaserJet 6Lse working via ghostscript & a PowerPrint 
serial/parallel converter (thanks to all who helped).

Now I'd like to share it out via netatalk's papd. I'd appreciate any help 
anyone can give me. It seems like it should be really simple, since I 
have gs working. How do I get papd to just take the file spooled from my 
mac & hand it to the gs lpd printer I've set up? Or is there more to it 
than that?

What I don't understand is why there needs to be a ".ppd" file on the 
netbsd/netatalk side. Hasn't the Mac already dealt with that by the time 
it hands the file to papd?

Anyway, this is what I have in my atalk/etc/papd.conf:

paige:\
        :pr=ljet4.1:\
        :pd=/usr/local/atalk/etc/laserwriter_ii_nt.ppd:

(the .ppd file came from adobe - I had to convert it from Unix to Mac cr/lf)

When it dies, I get an entry in my lpd spooler logfile w/ a ghostscript 
error in it. It's pretty big, but the gist of it is 

   Error: /invalidfont in -dict-
   Operand stack:
      Charcoal   --dict:12/25--   Font   Charcoal   --dict:12/25--   Charcoal

The rest of it is a gs stack trace. What I don't get is that if I print 
to a postscript file on the mac, and then do an "lpr <file>" on netbsd, 
it works fine.

What am I missing?


-Capt Avram Dorfman
Chief, Network Operations
email: dorfman@pentagon.mil
(last resort email: avram@pobox.com)

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