Printing 1.0.2RC

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Ian
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Printing 1.0.2RC

#1 Post by Ian »

I can't get printing to work from Abiword, Beaver or Leafpad.
Abiword says it cant find the fonts though they are there and puts up an error message about Ghostscript.

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#2 Post by BarryK »

I'm away from home right now, won't be able to try on my computer-with-printer until Saturday.

What happens with beaver and leafpad?

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#3 Post by Ian »

Sorry to be a bit late but I've been away too.
In Beaver and Leafpad I get no response at all. The jobs don't even show up in Xpdq.

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#4 Post by BarryK »

I got Beaver and Mozilla to print.
Not Abiword though.
It seems that Ghostscript can't handle the Postscript generated by the new Abiword.
Also, lprshell, the text-to-postscript converter script, uses Abiword to do the conversion, but it worked on a couple of files I tried from Beaver. Probably because they are simple text files.

This is a problem. I have to upgrade Ghostscript to see if that fixes it, but that is a major operation as Ghostscript is in the guts of Puppy.
I might have to hold that fix over to v1.0.3.

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#5 Post by Ian »

I didn't try printing from Mozilla so I'll go back and retry Beaver also Mozilla.

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