Re: printing

[Frantisek Hanzlik <franta@hanzlici.cz>]

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Vedran Vucic wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Please find attached output of my DOS application.
> Fonts are in /usr/local/ghostpdl-8.71/urwfonts
> 
> I am not sure that pcl6 is aware oftheirlocation.
> 
> I still have the same error message.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> vedran
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik <franta@hanzlici.cz> wrote:
>> Vedran Vucic wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I installed ghostpdl properly.
>>> When I do:
>>> $_lpt1='cat >/tmp/x.pcl'
>>> I get in /tmp folder file that is output from the program and it is
>>> actually text file.
>>>
>>> When I do other command:
>>> pcl6 -sDEVICE=pswrite -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile=x.ps x.pcl
>>> I got the following error message:
>>> Warning interpreter exited with error code -1
>>> Flushing to end of job
>>>
>>> Obviously interpreter is an issue.
>>>
>>> I think that we are very close to the solution. DO you have any idea
>>> about -1 error code of interpreter?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Vedran
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik <franta@hanzlici.cz> wrote:
>>>> Vedran Vucic wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> When I corrected as  you mentioned dosemu started normally. I entered
>>>>> my DOS application and tried toprint, but in terminal I have seen
>>>>> error message that pcl6 command is not found.
>>>>> Any suggestion? Any link or slink needed for that purpose?  Is there
>>>>> any path tweaking required?
>>>>
>>>> You wrote before You build ghostpdl package itself.
>>>> Was compiled properly?
>>>>
>>>> Was properly installed?
>>>>
>>>> Is pcl6 binary runnable?
>>>>
>>>> Is pcl6 binary in PATH in dosemu environment? (when no, you can specify
>>>> absolute path, e.g. $_lpt1='/my/path/pcl6 ...
>>>>
>>>> You should probably in this phase tune both things, dosemu and
>>>> pcl6/ghostpdl, separately:
>>>>
>>>> 1) in dosemu.conf lpt specification configure output to normal file:
>>>>
>>>> $_lpt1='cat >/tmp/x.pcl'
>>>>
>>>> and verify that file "/tmp/x.pcl" is rightly created and is in PCL format.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2) verify that pcl6 command work right by manually creating postscript
>>>> file from previous PCL:
>>>>
>>>> pcl6 -sDEVICE=pswrite -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile=x.ps x.pcl
>>>>
>>>> and again verify that file "/tmp/x.pcl" is rightly created and is in
>>>> postscript format
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 3) verify this postscript file printing:
>>>>
>>>> lpr -P Laserprinter x.ps
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> When all this steps works, You can set final "$_lpt1='....'" command in
>>>> dosemu.conf, as you have now.
>>>>
>>>> !!ATTENTION!! Sorry for mistake in all my previous mails: I incorrectly
>>>> specify "-sDEVICE=" parameter to "pdfwrite", which is obviously bad (I
>>>> clipboard copy this from my cfg, where I use pcl6 to create PDF
>>>> documents from DOS print output).
>>>> Right parameter value should be "pswrite":
>>>>
>>>> $_lpt1='pcl6 -sDEVICE=pswrite -dNOPAUSE -sPAPERSIZE=a4
>>>> -sOutputFile="|lpr -P YourPrinter1" -'
>>>>
>>>> FH
>>
>> I never got with ghostpdl to any bigger problems and not sure how
>> diagnose your.
>>
>> You can try some pcl6 (gs) debug switches, here is their doc:
>> http://svn.ghostscript.com/ghostscript/trunk/gs/doc/Use.htm#Debug_switches
>> You can study ghostpdl source code.
>>
>> Can you send me (or past somewhere for download) your PCL output from
>> DOS app? I can probe convert it with my ghostpdl build.
>>
>> Have you installed and rightly configured URW TTF fonts? ghostpdl
>> package require them.

My pcl6 works likely OK (see its output at:
http://www.hanzlici.cz/tmp/x.ps.bz2
), there is probably some wrong in your ghostpdl package.

Regarding TTF fonts location - problem may be there, you should correct
their path, this which is defined in ghostpdl source codes seems
appropriate for windos build.

I have located fonts in "/usr/share/fonts/urw-ttf/", then I patched
"pl/pjparse.c" as you can see in attached patch (there are some other
smaller patches, as I want use zlib and png system shared libraries
etc., and use some paths as conventional in my distro (Fedora).

SPEC file, which describe how I build ghostpdl and font RPM packages, is
contained in source rpm
(http://www.hanzlici.cz/packages/fedora/ghostpdl/14/ghostpdl-8.71-2.fc14.src.rpm)
or i got it for you to
http://www.hanzlici.cz/tmp/ghostpdl-8.71-fc14.spec
Notice instaled libpaper-devel, freeglut-devel, expat-devel,
libjpeg-devel, libpng-devel and zlib-devel packages.

At http://www.hanzlici.cz/packages/fedora/ghostpdl/14/ are my ghostpdl
RPM packages for current Fedora version (14; I have at this site dosemu
RPM packages as well)

Hope this help.
Franta Hanzlik

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