Subject: Re: Addendum about printing.
To: None <tbr@acm.org>
From: Richard Rauch <rkr@olib.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/21/2003 23:01:05
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 07:31:28PM -0700, Tom Rushworth wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 09:16:03AM -0500, Richard Rauch wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 08:20:25AM -0500, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> > > On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Richard Rauch wrote:
> > > 
> [snip]
> > 
> > Yucky hack, but the only thing that works.  (And even so, it still spits
> > out a blank page at the end of the job.)
 [...]
> I don't know if the blank page problem is the same one I had, but I have an
> HP laserjet PS printer too.  I had to add a ctrl-D to the end of each
 [...]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not sure how how to work it into my setup,
or whether it's relavent.

My printer is *not* a PS printer.  I use GhostScript to make it look like
a PS printer.  And GhostScript always got it right when the printer was
directly attached.

It's worth noting that if I take the (always-worked-before) GhostScript
command from my printer-filters/* script and execute it manually, then dump
the output directlly to a the locally attached printer, I get the same
blank page tacked on.  I tried removing the *last* escape-sequence from the
resulting binary file, and the bogus page is no longer printed.



...puzzled...


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