Re: gEDA-user: The PCB Postscript bug

[joel silvestre <j.silvestre@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I use this workaround for a HP DJ5652 printer

 gs -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE
-sDEVICE=ijssIjsServer=hpijs -sDeviceManufacturer="HEWLETT-PACKARD"
-sDeviceModel="deskjet 5550" -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595
-dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=842 -dDuplex=false -r1200
-sIjsParams=Quality:Quality=3,Quality:ColorMode=2,Quality:MediaType=2,Quality:PenSet=2   -dIjsUseOutputFD -sOutputFile=noname_hpdj5652.prn noname.output_back.ps

And then I send noname_hpdj5652.prn to the printer with xpp selecting
his "raw output" option.
The gs command line options had been found from cups in debug mode.

I think, in my case, the problem appeared after a system (security)
update, but I'm unable to be more precise about the faulty package.

And many thank's for those great tools!

Joel


Le jeudi 02 mars 2006 à 13:10 -0500, DJ Delorie a écrit :
> I think the core problem is that the Gtk PCB assumes your printer
> supports Postscript level 3.  Level 2 is still popular, and there's
> really no reason for us to need more than level 1 anyway (HID requires
> level 1 but adds level 2 comments for page separations in gv et al).
> 
> So, if you have a level 1 or 2 printer, the workaround for now is to
> tell CUPS (or whatever) to pre-render the page using ghostscript
> (which is level 3) and send the page as a bitmap instead of sending
> the postscript itself to the printer.