Brian K Servis wrote: > > Mario Filipe writes: > > > > [ initial problem text removed ] > > > > That person was me. > > I think the problem is that the stdin to your myfilter, which can be > anything, and the stdout from hpset, which is hp escape codes, are not > of the same format and probably get misinterpreted by magicfilter and > are probably not even appended to each other. You need to prepend the > hpset output to the processed stdout of ghostscript and send them to > stdout as one unit to the printer. This is my solution: > > /etc/printcap: > # econo mode > lpc|djc|hpdj660c|HP Deskjet 660Cse Color Econo:\ > :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hpdj660c:\ > :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ > :if=/usr/sbin/dj550c-filter:\ > :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: > # letter quality > lpcl|djcl|hpdj660cl|HP Deskjet 660Cse Color:\ > :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hpdj660cl:\ > :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ > :if=/usr/sbin/dj550cl-filter:\ > :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: > > /usr/sbin/dj550c-filter: > #! /usr/sbin/magicfilter > # > # PostScript > 0 %! ffilter /usr/local/lib/magicfilter/econogsc $FILE > [rest of filter left out] > > /usr/local/lib/magicfilter/econogsc: > #!/usr/bin/tcsh > # called as: econogsc <psfile> > # send hpset hp escape codes to a tmp file > /usr/local/bin/hpset -c econo >! /tmp/prt.$$ > # append the ghostscript hp escape codes to that tmp file > /bin/cat $1 | /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r300 -sDEVICE=cdj550 > -sOutputFile=- - >> /tmp/prt.$$ > # cat the tmp file to stdout > /bin/cat /tmp/prt.$$ > # clean up > /bin/rm /tmp/prt.$$ >
Why all the mess? Why not: #!/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/hpset -c econo /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r300 -sDEVICE=cdj550 -sOutputFile=- -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
