Re: What happened to colour output from OpenOffice?

Hi

Pete Brown wrote:
> Hi Paul
>
> Paul Smedley wrote:
>> Hi Pete,
>>
>> Pete Brown wrote:
>>> As most of the documents that failed to print in colour have
>>> previously printed *in colour* using the GUTENPRT OS/2 printer package
>>> I installed a new printer, called "Older", from that package and tried
>>> printing 1 of the above documents.
>>>
>>> It printed fine - with the correct colours.
>>>
>>>
>>> This points at the ECUPS package as being the cause of the "missing
>>> colour" problem rather than cups.
>>
>> Sorry for the long delay on responding to this post...
>>
>> It would be helpful to get a copy of the postscript code from a sample
>> document.
>>
>> Can you please print the same document to a file, using both the older
>> gutenprt driver and the newer ecups driver and send me both files?
>>
>> That way I can try and determine what's different in the .ps code that
>> is affecting the colour of documents.

Pstoraster revisited

Hi,

I have just installed the latest cups and have run into a few problems I
did not have before. I could print with the previous version, now it
fails.

The first error I got was that rastertogutenprint.5.2.exe could not be
found. I found it in gutenprint and copied it to the
\cups\lib\cups\filter\ map.

After that, pstoraster failed. See the attached error log.

I am using the driver for the HP7750, which wroked in the previous
version.

Any ideas?

Cheers, Bjorn.
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Re: Pstoraster revisited

Hi Bjorn

kbr@... wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just installed the latest cups and have run into a few problems I
> did not have before. I could print with the previous version, now it
> fails.
>
> The first error I got was that rastertogutenprint.5.2.exe could not be
> found. I found it in gutenprint and copied it to the
> \cups\lib\cups\filter\ map.
>
> After that, pstoraster failed. See the attached error log.
>
> I am using the driver for the HP7750, which wroked in the previous
> version.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>

Sounds like you deleted the existing cups directory and then unzipped 
the new cups package?

I've found it best to simply unzip over the existing files as otherwise 
it is necessary to reinstall files from the gutenprint package which go 
into the cups directory.

Regards

Re: Pstoraster revisited

In <gua6pg$5k4$1 <at> ger.gmane.org>, on 05/11/09 
   at 10:53 PM, Pete Brown
<losepete@...> said:

>Sounds like you deleted the existing cups directory and then unzipped 
>the new cups package?

Yes. Was forced to after I lost a few partitions. Cups was one of the 2
things I hadn't backep up.

>I've found it best to simply unzip over the existing files as otherwise 
>it is necessary to reinstall files from the gutenprint package which go 
>into the cups directory.

I did copy the \cups part of the gtenprint package into the \cups
directory after the rastertogutenprint.5.2.exe not found error. The
pstorater error seems not related to that. Afak, I have installed
everything right. I seem to remember that the ppd's in the previous
package i used were not in gz format. but I'm not sure. Might it be that
the ppd version has changed and causes this error?

>Regards

>Pete

>>
>> Cheers, Bjorn.
>>
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Suggestion about postscript printer

At office we have a Xerox Postscript network printer online. The 
documentation says that supported languages are: "PCL6, PCL5e, 
PostScript 3 emulation".

I downloaded the Generic Windows PPD file from Xerox site, converted it 
  to OS/2 codepage and added to the Postscript Printer Driver from 
http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/eCupsScript.
Last, I created an object with output port through SLPR.

Now, if I drop an ASCII file on the printer object and select "plain 
text" nothing happens, if I select "printer-specific" the file is 
correctly printed. Unfortunately, nothing happens if I print directly 
from applications. "Printing to file" in Lucide produced a PS file that, 
  when dropped on the print object, was printed as ASCII.

I have also tried to install this printer in CUPS, but I could not find 
a "Generic postscript printer" in the list, and if I use the Xerox' PPD 
file, I get this error:

"Filter "/Library/Printers/Xerox/filter/XeroxPSFilter" for printer 
"XEROX265" not available: No such file or directory"

Any suggestion?

Bye and thanks!
Gabriele

Re: Suggestion about postscript printer

Hi Gabriele

Gabriele Gamba wrote:
> At office we have a Xerox Postscript network printer online. The
> documentation says that supported languages are: "PCL6, PCL5e,
> PostScript 3 emulation".
>
> I downloaded the Generic Windows PPD file from Xerox site, converted it
> to OS/2 codepage and added to the Postscript Printer Driver from
> http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/eCupsScript.
> Last, I created an object with output port through SLPR.
>
> Now, if I drop an ASCII file on the printer object and select "plain
> text" nothing happens, if I select "printer-specific" the file is
> correctly printed. Unfortunately, nothing happens if I print directly
> from applications. "Printing to file" in Lucide produced a PS file that,
> when dropped on the print object, was printed as ASCII.
>
> I have also tried to install this printer in CUPS, but I could not find
> a "Generic postscript printer" in the list, and if I use the Xerox' PPD
> file, I get this error:
>
> "Filter "/Library/Printers/Xerox/filter/XeroxPSFilter" for printer
> "XEROX265" not available: No such file or directory"
>
> Any suggestion?
>
> Bye and thanks!
> Gabriele

Still not working / psoraster failed

Hi!

Have reinnstalled everything from scratch again, making sure all files are
there and in their proper places. Still the same problem. Cups HAS worked
on ths pc, same setup, although it was installed on a different drive.

Perhaps someone could have a look at the log and see if I'm missing
something?

Cheers, Bjorn.
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Re: Still not working / psoraster failed

Hi Bjorn,

On Tue, 19 May 2009 09:07:39 UTC, 
kbr@... wrote:

> Have reinnstalled everything from scratch again, making sure all files are
> there and in their proper places. Still the same problem. Cups HAS worked
> on ths pc, same setup, although it was installed on a different drive.
> 
> Perhaps someone could have a look at the log and see if I'm missing
> something?
E [19/May/2009:10:54:42 -0100] PID 348 
(/cups/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster) stopped with status 2!

Looks like you don't have debug logging enabled, but error 2 means 
file not found.

- Check that \cups\lib\cups\filter\pstoraster exists
- Assuming it does exist, check that the ghostscript path is valid.
- Assuming it is valid, check that \gs\gs8.64\bin\gsos2.exe (or 
whatever the path in pstoraster is) runs from the command line
- If gsos2 works, try pstoraster from a command line and see if it 
works, something like:
	\cups\sbin\cupsash.exe /cups/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster 1 2 3 4 5 
/cups/share/cups/data/testprint.ps out.ras

Hopefully something in the above helps :)

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Re: Still not working / psoraster failed

In <POn1Xm9ddZOp-pn2-QR3dtRdEJQih@...>, on 05/19/09 
   at 09:48 AM, "Paul Smedley"
<pauldespam@...> said:

Hi again, Paul

>- Check that \cups\lib\cups\filter\pstoraster exists
Does

>- Assuming it does exist, check that the ghostscript path is valid. -
Is

>Assuming it is valid, check that \gs\gs8.64\bin\gsos2.exe (or  whatever
>the path in pstoraster is) runs from the command line - If gsos2 works,
Does

>try pstoraster from a command line and see if it  works, something like:
>	\cups\sbin\cupsash.exe /cups/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster 1 2 3 4 5 
>/cups/share/cups/data/testprint.ps out.ras

Ah..... file not found....  both cups 1.3.10 packages on your server do
not contain cupsash.exe. Downloaded 1.3.9, copied cupsash to cups\sbin and
voila

>Hopefully something in the above helps :)
It did, thanks!

Cheers, Bjorn.
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Re: Still not working / psoraster failed

Hi,

On Tue, 19 May 2009 11:02:03 UTC, 
kbr@... wrote:

> In <POn1Xm9ddZOp-pn2-QR3dtRdEJQih@...>, on 05/19/09 
>    at 09:48 AM, "Paul Smedley"
> <pauldespam@...> said:
> >try pstoraster from a command line and see if it  works, something like:
> >	\cups\sbin\cupsash.exe /cups/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster 1 2 3 4 5 
> >/cups/share/cups/data/testprint.ps out.ras
> 
> Ah..... file not found....  both cups 1.3.10 packages on your server do
> not contain cupsash.exe. Downloaded 1.3.9, copied cupsash to cups\sbin and
> voila

Thanks - cups*.zip is updated now to include cupsash.exe :)

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