Help: 3.0 to 3.1r1 upgrade, printing broken (wrong paper size?)
I just upgraded to 3.1r1 from 3.0 and printing is broken. It looks like the wrong paper size is selected because printouts (and PS images made from ghostscript) run up over the top margin.According to /etc/papersize, I'm still using letter. I'm not using CUPS, although Xprint was installed in the upgrade. I've fooled with the files in /etc/Xprint to no avail. I have a LaserJet 4M+ attached directly via parallel port and printing has always been a matter of sending a PS file to lpr. Now when I do that in Mozilla, the margins are way off and the image bleeds off the top of the page. Even converting files has this problem. I tried converting a PPM to PS with "convert" and the resultant image has "BBox" as paper size in gv, not letter. When I select "letter" I get the same bleed off the top of the page in the image. When I use gs to combine several of these ps images (so that I can convert the big ps image into PDF), the new image goes up off the top margin, too. I hope this is just a simple FAQ but in hours of searching I've found nothing. Please help! - Get your FREE email account at Asheville.com. http://mail.asheville.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help: 3.0 to 3.1r1 upgrade, printing broken (wrong paper size?)
Here's a few addendums to my initial post: * I don't have CUPS installed but Xprint appears to have been installed. There's an /etc/cups/client.conf which looks like a skeleton file, nothing but comments. * Do I *need* Xprint and/or CUPS? I was happy with lpd and don't see the benefit of a change. We have a PostScript printer attached to the parallel port and had no problems with lpd. Can I just purge Xprint and go back to how it was? (I'm afriad to do this because dselect tells me that x-window-system depends on xprint) * Here's my relevant packages: $ dpkg -l xprt-* cups* gs-* gv gs Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- un xprt-common (no description available) ii xprt-xprintorg 0.1.0.alpha1-1 Xprint - the X11 print system (dummy) un cups(no description available) pn cups-pdf(no description available) pn cupsomatic-ppd (no description available) pn cupsys (no description available) pn cupsys-bsd (no description available) pn cupsys-client (no description available) pn cupsys-driver- (no description available) pn cupsys-driver- (no description available) pn cupsys-pstoras (no description available) pn cupsys-pt (no description available) un cupsys-server (no description available) un gs-afpl (no description available) un gs-aladdin (no description available) un gs-cjk-resourc (no description available) ii gs-common 0.3.7 Common files for different Ghostscript relea pn gs-esp (no description available) ii gs-gpl 8.01-5 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript interpreter un gs-pdfencrypt (no description available) ii gv 3.6.1-10 PostScript and PDF viewer for X ii gs 8.01-5 Transitional package $ I hope someone can figure this out from my description. I'm stumped. All I want (boss says "NEED!") to do is print out a piece of paper! I appreciate the help! - Get your FREE email account at Asheville.com. http://mail.asheville.com - Get your FREE email account at Asheville.com. http://mail.asheville.com - Get your FREE email account at Asheville.com. http://mail.asheville.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help: 3.0 to 3.1r1 upgrade, printing broken (wrong paper size?)
Hate to send so many messages to the list but I have more info to report. I forgot to list the xprint* packages: Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-=-=-== ii xprint0.1.0.alpha1-10 Xprint - the X11 print system (binary) ii xprint-common 0.1.0.alpha1-10 Xprint - the X11 print system (configuration files I did an "apt-get remove xprint" which took out x-window-system and all the xprt* and xprint* packages, but I still have no luck. When I create a ps file with "convert 1.ppm -page letter 1.ps" it looks okay in gv, but still when I combine several the new ps document is cut off at the top of the page: gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile=new.ps 1.ps 2.ps 3.ps Could it be a gs config issue? This used to work fine before the 3.0->3.1r1 upgrade. Now I can't print or even make ps/pdf files. - Get your FREE email account at Asheville.com. http://mail.asheville.com - Get your FREE email account at Asheville.com. http://mail.asheville.com - Get your FREE email account at Asheville.com. http://mail.asheville.com - Get your FREE email account at Asheville.com. http://mail.asheville.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
