From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Recipe for ps-print-buffer on a Linux system, using Ghostscript to go to PCL printer? Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 14:34:31 +0100 Message-ID: <955D94B7-A657-4564-9190-42F89F2E68E4@Web.DE> References: <1167135260.106056.187720@h40g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167140199 8132 80.91.229.10 (26 Dec 2006 13:36:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 13:36:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 26 14:36:37 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GzCTs-0006yn-B9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 14:36:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GzCTr-0002Mv-KM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:36:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GzCTT-0002LC-Mv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:36:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GzCTR-0002JT-Pw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:36:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GzCTR-0002JK-Ff for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:36:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.72.192.234] (helo=fmmailgate03.web.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GzCTP-0003Di-Ex for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:36:07 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp08.web.de (fmsmtp08.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.216]) by fmmailgate03.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1941E4B2F8D5; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 14:34:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [84.245.175.12] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp08.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.107 #114) id 1GzCRs-0006yf-00; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 14:34:33 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1167135260.106056.187720@h40g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> X-Image-Url: http://homepage.mac.com/sparifankal/.cv/thumbs/me.thumbnail Original-To: Endless Story X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:39924 Archived-At: Am 26.12.2006 um 13:14 schrieb Endless Story: > I'd like to be able to do the same on the Linux side, but can find no > recipes to copy. Trying to alter a Windows-style recipe so far hasn't > worked. The Ghostscript manual hasn't been helpful since it's not > written with Emacs in mind. And "man lpr" hasn't helped much either. Have you CUPS installed? The Common UNIX Printing Systems offers a rasteriser to convert PostScript to whatever. And it's just a backend, the mechanism to clean the printer's queue. http://localhost: 631/ -- Greetings Pete A morning without coffee is like something without something else.