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Ian · Posted: Thu 12 May 2005, 06:51 Post subject: Printing 1.0.2RC

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.

BarryK · Posted: Thu 12 May 2005, 08:29 Post subject:

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?

Ian · Posted: Sat 14 May 2005, 09:49 Post subject:

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.

BarryK · Posted: Sun 15 May 2005, 05:43 Post subject:

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.

Ian · Posted: Sun 15 May 2005, 07:36 Post subject:

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