magicfilter, ghostscript

[Aurel Wisse]

Cynthia,

No guarantee I can help you, but a few more items of
information would be helpful:

1) Have you tried to use printtool to configure your
printer? Or is printconf=printtool?
>I keep getting a message about
> permission denied when 
> restarting lpd.
2) What is the exact wording of the message when you
try to start lpd? Please send a copy of the output.
3) How do you restart lpd?
4) Send a copy of your printcap and printcap.local
files.
>How 
> do I need to set my permissions to make this message
> go away?
5) Permissions on what?

As I said, I might not be able to help but this looks
strange, as I had no trouble at all setting up my
printing. First usb printing via printtool and now
network printing by editing printcap manually.

Aurel
--- Cynthia Croy <clc2@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>   My frustrations in getting my printer to work
> continue . . .
> 
> I think my problem is probably that I need to
> convert from postscript 
> level 2 or 3 (which Abiword uses - and probably
> other apps) to 
> postscript level 1. The only ways I've gotten any
> output from the 
> printer were sending a Latex formatted level 1
> document directly to the 
> port, and printing a postscript test page from
> printconf using a raw 
> printer driver, gpr and the PPD for my printer from
> Adobe. I would also 
> like to be able to print other types of files -
> diagrams from xfig for 
> example.
> 
> So, I'm confused about a couple things. First, how
> does printconf send 
> it's test page in a format my printer understands?
> Second, how do I get 
> postscript levels 2 and 3 converted to level 1? I
> think ghostscript has 
> a utility to do it, but I need to know how to set
> things up to get it to 
> do so. Is ghostscript supposed to do this
> automatically, or do I need to 
> modify my printcap file? Finally, I believe
> magicfilter is supposed to 
> make conversions of graphics and other types of
> files to postscript, but 
> I haven't been able to understand how to do that
> either. I have 
> magicfilter-2.2.k/filters/cps300.def set as an input
> filter in 
> printcap.local but I keep getting a message about
> permission denied when 
> restarting lpd. I've tried root and lp for both the
> owner and group. How 
> do I need to set my permissions to make this message
> go away?
> 
> I've read a lot of documentation and how-to pages,
> and it still isn't 
> clear to me what I need to do to get things set up
> so that I can click 
> on the print button in an application and get my
> printer to print.
> 
> If it's necessary information, the printer is a
> LaserWriter Select 310 
> connected to /dev/ttyS1, and I am running YDL 2.2.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Cindy
> 
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