Kent West wrote: > Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:04:54PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > > > > Well, FWIW, have you worked out your printing problem? What are > > > > you printing to in Netscape -- what's the command you're using? Any > > > > error messages? Anything turn up in your print queue (lpq)? > > > > > > > > > > No. I can print from the command line (using "lp foo"), but not from > > > Netscape or Abiword. > > > When I click on File/Print within Netscape, the printer dialog box pops > > > up, and the "Print > > > to" option is set to "Printer", and the "Print Command" is set to "lpr". > > > > > > As soon as I click on the "Print" button, I switch to a terminal window > > > and do an "lpq", > > > which reports that there are "no printable jobs in queue". > > > > Can you print postscript files (lpr blabla.ps)? When not install magicfilter > > + ghostcript packages. > > > > Mire > > I believe you've found the problem. I "printed" to a file instead of to a > printer from within > Netscape, and then lpr'd the resulting netscape.ps file (I viewed the > netscape.ps file first; > at a brief lookover it looks like a valid poastscript file). I got the same > nothing I get when > trying to print to a printer from Netscape. So apparently I can't print > postscript files. > > However, I have the newest magicfilter installed (according to apt, pointed > at potato), and > ghostscript appears to not be available in potato: I get a message about it > not having an > available version although it is in the database, which means it may be > obsolete. > > Thanks for getting me to the next level of troubleshooting, Mire; I > appreciate it!
"gs" was the package I was looking for. Now I'm printing! Thanks Mire!!!
