question about printing to postscript printers

[John Bleichert]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Goffioul Michael wrote:
>
> You're missing the postscript.ppd file shipped with KDE.
> You can find on http://webcvs.kde.org (see attached file
> for exact address). This used to be missing in some KDE
> versions, but it has been restored since 3.2-alpha.
> Alternativaly, foomatic also includes a Postscript driver:
> see in the "Generic" manufacturer item, in the add printer
> wizard.
>
> Michael.
>

Ahah! thanks for the pointer. I still get an error when selecting the
"Postscript Printer" checkbox but there is now a postscript printer option
under Generic. Haven't gotten anything to the printer yet, but this is a
significant step forward (jobs just sit in the queue, will look into it
this afternoon).

Here's a snap of the error, fyi:

http://vonbek.dhs.org/kdeprint-err.jpg

Thanks for the info!!

JB

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Bleichert [mailto:syborg at earthlink.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 15:40
> > To: For users and developers of KDEPrint, the KDE printing
> > architecture
> > Subject: Re: question about printing to postscript printers
> >
> > I've tried that and unfortunately it doesn't work. When I select
> > "postscript printer" I get an error stating "Unable to find
> > the Postscript
> > driver". I have ESP Ghostscript 7 installed - my question for the KDE
> > crowd was how do I get the kde-printer setup rig to see the driver? No
> > luck so far.
> >
> > Thanks - JB
> >
> > (accidentally sent this to the kde-linux list...)
> >
> >
> > // John Bleichert
> > // syborg at earthlink.net
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>

// John Bleichert
// syborg at earthlink.net