ps-print problems

ps-print problems

[Sebastian Luque]

ps-print-buffer and similar functions, e.g. ps-print-region, have stopped
working properly in my system (GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, X
toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2005-03-17 on trouble, modified by
Debian).  No error gets detected by Emacs, so I got no backtrace, although
the only thing that gets printed is the following text:

,-----[ ps-print-buffer printed output ]
| # ERROR: configurationerror
| # OFFENDING COMMAND: setpageadvice
| 
| # STACK:
| 
| -dictionary-
| 
| # ERRORINFO:
| 
| false
| /ManualFeed
`-----

Googling for this is not yielding anything, so I don't have much to play
around with.  My only suspicion is that this has to do with lpr, which I
recently upgraded in my system (Debian unstable).  Has anybody else
experienced this or have any pointers?

Thanks in advance,
-- 
Sebastian P. Luque

Re: ps-print problems

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 17.08.2005 um 01:05 schrieb Sebastian Luque:

> ,-----[ ps-print-buffer printed output ]
> | # ERROR: configurationerror
> | # OFFENDING COMMAND: setpageadvice
> |
> | # STACK:
> |
> | -dictionary-
> |
> | # ERRORINFO:
> |
> | false
> | /ManualFeed
> `-----
>

There is PostScript interpreter involved in this. Parts of the 
PostScript code it is interpreting is meant for a different hardware, 
i.e. a specific PostScript printer.

I think the error can come from some customization in PostScript 
printing. There is a group (PS Print?) where you can switch on or off 
manual feeding of your printer. Could you toggle that setting?

Can you try *not* to spool for printing, i.e. passing all output to the 
operating system, but redirect the PS output into a buffer? I think the 
variable to be set to non-nil is pr-spool-p. Once you get the PS code 
in that buffer, you can save it to a file and pass it to gs to see what 
it finds.

What puzzles me is the setpageadvice error. I think this is only useful 
in a hard RIP, i.e. inside the PostScript printer. Can it be that you 
set up CUPS particles to do something with the stuff to be printed?

--
Greetings

   Pete

These are my principles and if you don't like them... well, I have 
others. - Groucho Marx

Re: ps-print problems

[Jochen Küpper]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa-Ebz0p6Y2lXc@public.gmane.org> writes:

> I think the error can come from some customization in PostScript 
> printing. There is a group (PS Print?) where you can switch on or off 
> manual feeding of your printer. Could you toggle that setting?

Or use C-u ps-print-buffer:
,----[ C-h f ps-print-buffer RET ]
| ps-print-buffer is an interactive autoloaded Lisp function in `ps-print'.
| It is bound to <menu-bar> <file> <ps-print-buffer>.
| (ps-print-buffer &optional FILENAME)
| 
| Generate and print a PostScript image of the buffer.
| 
| Interactively, when you use a prefix argument (C-u), the command prompts the
| user for a file name, and saves the PostScript image in that file instead of
| sending it to the printer.
| 
| Noninteractively, the argument FILENAME is treated as follows: if it is nil,
| send the image to the printer.  If FILENAME is a string, save the PostScript
| image in a file with that name.
`----

Greetings,
Jochen
-- 
Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit                http://www.Jochen-Kuepper.de
    Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité                GnuPG key: CC1B0B4D
        (Part 3 you find in my messages before fall 2003.)

Re: ps-print problems

[Sebastian Luque]

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Thank you Peter and Jochen,


Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> wrote:

[...]

> I think the error can come from some customization in PostScript
> printing. There is a group (PS Print?) where you can switch on or off
> manual feeding of your printer. Could you toggle that setting?

Actually, I had left this at default value of nil (off).  In fact, the
error occurs even with 'emacs -q', although ps-print was working perfectly
until a few days ago (last time I printed something from Emacs).  Printing
still works ok from other apps, and I haven't (consciously) touched
anything on CUPS, as I'm not so experienced with it.


> Can you try *not* to spool for printing, i.e. passing all output to the
> operating system, but redirect the PS output into a buffer? I think the
> variable to be set to non-nil is pr-spool-p. Once you get the PS code in
> that buffer, you can save it to a file and pass it to gs to see what it
> finds.

Ok, I've tried that and got output with several lines like this:

ESP Ghostscript 815.00: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = -1

I've checked the file to look for some clues, but the PostScript language
is over my head and can't make sense of the output.  I'm attaching the
file, in case someone with more experience thinks it's necessary.


> What puzzles me is the setpageadvice error.

Googling for this turns up a couple of hits relating to problems with
paper size, but I think that's unlikely in my case (see my first
paragraph).


Thanks again,
-- 
Sebastian P. Luque

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% any later version.
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% GNU General Public License for more details.
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  SyncLineZebra
  {PLScounter 0 gt						% or zebra
   {/PLScounter PLScounter 1 sub def PLScounter 0 eq}
   {false}ifelse
   PrintLineStep 1 gt
   {/PrintLineStep PrintLineStep 1 sub def}
   {/PrintLineStep ZebraHeight def
    /PLScounter PrintLineStart def}ifelse}
  {LineNumber PrintLineStart sub PrintLineStep mod 0 eq}ifelse	% or line step
}def

% stack:  --
/doLineNumber{
  /LineNumber where
  {pop
   isLineStep			% or line step
   LineNumber Lines ge or	% or last line
   {currentfont
    gsave
    LineNumberColor SetColor
    /L0 findfont setfont
    LineNumber Lines ge
    {(end      )}
    {LineNumber 6 string cvs(      )strcat}ifelse
    dup stringwidth pop neg 0 rmoveto
    show
    grestore
    setfont}if
    /LineNumber LineNumber 1 add def
  }if
}def

% stack: color-specifier |- --
/SetColor{dup type/realtype eq{setgray}{aload pop setrgbcolor}ifelse}def

% stack: --
/printZebra{
  gsave
  ZebraColor SetColor
  /double-zebra ZebraHeight ZebraHeight add def
  /yiter double-zebra LineHS mul neg def
  /xiter PrintWidth InterColumn add def
  /zebra-line LinesPrinted def
  NumberOfColumns{LinesPerColumn doColumnZebra xiter 0 rmoveto}repeat
  grestore
}def

% stack:  lines-per-column |- --
/doColumnZebra{
  /lpc exch def
  gsave
  ZebraFollow 1 and 0 ne{
    /H ZebraHeight zebra-line ZebraHeight mod sub def
    /lpc lpc H sub def
    zebra-line double-zebra mod ZebraHeight lt
    {H doZebra	% "black" stripe followed by a "white" stripe
     /lpc lpc ZebraHeight sub def
     H ZebraHeight add}
    {H}ifelse	% "white" stripe
    LineHS mul neg 0 exch rmoveto
    /zebra-line zebra-line LinesPerColumn add def
  }if
  /zspacing 0 def
  lpc dup double-zebra idiv{ZebraHeight doZebra 0 yiter rmoveto}repeat
  double-zebra mod dup 0 le{pop}
  {dup ZebraHeight gt
   {pop ZebraHeight}
   {/zspacing LineSpacing def
    ZebraFollow 2 and 0 ne{pop ZebraHeight}if}ifelse
   doZebra}ifelse
  grestore
}def

% stack:  zebra-height (in lines) |- --
/doZebra{
  /zh exch 0.05 sub LineHS mul zspacing sub def
  gsave
  0 LineHeight 0.65 mul rmoveto
  PrintWidth 0 rlineto
  0 zh neg rlineto
  PrintWidth neg 0 rlineto
  0 zh rlineto
  fill
  grestore
}def

% stack: --
/printBackground{
  /BackgroundColor where{
    pop gsave BackgroundColor SetColor
    NumberOfColumns{
     gsave
     0 LineHeight 0.65 mul rmoveto
     PrintWidth 0 rlineto
     0 PrintHeight neg rlineto
     PrintWidth neg 0 rlineto
     0 PrintHeight rlineto
     fill
     grestore
     PrintWidth InterColumn add 0 rmoveto
    }repeat
    grestore
  }if
}def

% tx ty rotation xscale yscale xpos ypos BeginBackImage
/BeginBackImage{
  /-save-image- save def
  /showpage{}def
  translate
  scale
  rotate
  translate
}def

/EndBackImage{-save-image- restore}def

% string fontsize fontname rotation gray xpos ypos ShowBackText
/ShowBackText{
  gsave
  translate
  setgray
  rotate
  findfont exch dup/-offset- exch -0.25 mul def scalefont setfont
  0 -offset- moveto
  /-saveLineThickness- LineThickness def
  /LineThickness 1 def
  false doOutline
  /LineThickness -saveLineThickness- def
  grestore
}def

/SetPageSize{
  BMark/PageSize[PageWidth LandscapePageHeight LandscapeMode{exch}if]EMark setpagedevice
}def

/BeginDoc{
  % ---- Remember space width of the normal text font `f0'.
  /SpaceWidth/f0 findfont setfont( )stringwidth pop def
  % ---- save the state of the document (useful for ghostscript!)
  /docState save def
  % ---- [andrewi] set PageSize based on chosen dimensions
  UseSetpagedevice{
   WarnPaperSize{SetPageSize}{mark{SetPageSize}stopped cleartomark}ifelse
  }if
  /ColumnWidth PrintWidth InterColumn add def
  % ---- define where  printing will start
  /f0 F					% this installs Ascent
  /PrintStartY PrintHeight Ascent sub def
  /ColumnIndex 1 def
  /N-Up-Counter N-Up-End 1 sub def
  /PLScounter PrintLineStart def
}def

/EndDoc{
  % ---- restore the state of the document (useful for ghostscript!)
  docState restore
}def

/BeginDSCPage{
  % ---- when 1st column, save the state of the page
  ColumnIndex 1 eq{/pageState save def}if
  % ---- save the state of the column
  /columnState save def
}def

/PrintHeaderWidth PrintOnlyOneHeader{PrintPageWidth}{PrintWidth}ifelse def

/BeginPage{
  /LinesPrinted exch def
  % ---- when 1st column, print all background effects
  ColumnIndex 1 eq{
    0 PrintStartY moveto		% move to where printing will start
    printBackground
    Zebra{printZebra}if
    printGlobalBackground
    printLocalBackground
  }if
  PrintOnlyOneHeader{ColumnIndex 1 eq}{true}ifelse
  dup PrintHeader and{
    PrintHeaderFrame{HeaderFrame}if
    HeaderText
  }if
  PrintFooter and{
    PrintFooterFrame{FooterFrame}if
    FooterText
  }if
  0 PrintStartY moveto			% move to where printing will start
  /LineNumber where
  {pop
   SyncLineZebra
   {/H PageNumber 1 sub NumberOfColumns mul ColumnIndex 1 sub add
       LinesPerColumn mul ZebraHeight mod def
    /PLScounter H PrintLineStart ge{0}{PrintLineStart H sub}ifelse def
    /PrintLineStep ZebraHeight H sub def}if}if
  PLN
}def

/EndPage{bg{eolbg}if}def

/EndDSCPage{
  ColumnIndex NumberOfColumns eq{
    % ---- restore the state of the page
    pageState restore
    /ColumnIndex 1 def
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      N-Up-Counter 0 gt
      {% ---- Next page on same row
	/N-Up-Counter N-Up-Counter 1 sub def
	N-Up-XColumn N-Up-YColumn}
      {% ---- Next page on next line
	/N-Up-Counter N-Up-End 1 sub def
	N-Up-XLine N-Up-YLine}ifelse
      translate
    }if
  }{ % else
    % ---- restore the state of the current column
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    % ---- and translate to the next column
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    /ColumnIndex ColumnIndex 1 add def
  }ifelse
}def

/TextStart{
  LeftMargin BottomMargin
  PrintFooter{
    FooterPad add
    FooterLines FooterLineHeight mul add
    FooterPad add
    FooterOffset add}if
}def

% stack: number-of-pages-per-sheet |- --
/BeginSheet{
  /sheetState save def
  /pages-per-sheet exch def

  % ---- translate to bottom-right corner of Portrait page
  LandscapeMode{
    LandscapePageHeight 0 translate
    90 rotate
  }if
  % ---- [jack] Kludge: my ghostscript window is 21x27.7 instead of 21x29.7
  /JackGhostscript where{pop 1 27.7 29.7 div scale}if
  UpsideDown{PageWidth LandscapePageHeight translate 180 rotate}if
  % ---- N-Up printing
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    % ---- landscape
    N-Up-Landscape{
      PageWidth 0 translate
      90 rotate
    }if
    N-Up-Margin dup translate
    % ---- scale
    LandscapeMode{
      /HH PageWidth def
      /WW LandscapePageHeight def
    }{
      /HH LandscapePageHeight def
      /WW PageWidth def
    }ifelse
    /xx 0 def
    N-Up-Landscape{
      /ww WW WW mul N-Up-Lines HH mul div def
      /cc HH N-Up-Columns N-Up-Missing add div def
      ww cc gt{/xx WW def/WW cc ww div WW mul def/xx xx WW sub def}if
    }{
      /hh HH N-Up-Columns N-Up-Missing add div def
      /cc HH N-Up-Lines div def
      hh cc gt{/xx WW def/WW cc hh div WW mul def/xx xx WW sub def}if
    }ifelse
    WW N-Up-Margin sub N-Up-Margin sub
    N-Up-Landscape
    {N-Up-Lines div HH}
    {N-Up-Columns N-Up-Missing add div WW}ifelse
    div dup scale
    LandscapeMode{/yy 0 def}{/yy xx def/xx 0 def}ifelse
    xx N-Up-Repeat 1 sub LandscapePageHeight mul yy add translate
    % ---- go to start position in page matrix
    N-Up-XStart N-Up-Missing 0.5 mul
    LandscapeMode
    {LandscapePageHeight mul N-Up-YStart add}
    {PageWidth mul add N-Up-YStart}ifelse
    translate
  }if
  % ---- translate to lower left corner of TEXT
  TextStart translate

  % ---- N-up printing
  N-Up 1 gt N-Up-Border and pages-per-sheet 0 gt and{
    % ---- page border
    gsave
    0 setgray
    TextStart exch neg exch neg moveto
    N-Up-Repeat
    {N-Up-End
     {gsave
      PageWidth 0 rlineto
      0 LandscapePageHeight rlineto
      PageWidth neg 0 rlineto
      closepath stroke
      grestore
      /pages-per-sheet pages-per-sheet 1 sub def
      pages-per-sheet 0 le{exit}if
      N-Up-XColumn N-Up-YColumn rmoveto
     }repeat
     pages-per-sheet 0 le{exit}if
     N-Up-XLine N-Up-XColumn sub N-Up-YLine rmoveto
    }repeat
    grestore
  }if
}def

/EndSheet{
  showpage
  sheetState restore
}def

/SetHeaderLines{			% nb-lines --
  /HeaderLines exch def
  % ---- bottom up
  HeaderPad
  HeaderLines 1 sub HeaderLineHeight mul add
  HeaderTitleLineHeight add
  HeaderPad add
  /HeaderHeight exch def
}def

/SetFooterLines{			% nb-lines --
  /FooterLines exch def
  % ---- bottom up
  FooterPad
  FooterLines FooterLineHeight mul add
  FooterPad add
  /FooterHeight exch def
}def

% |---------|
% |  tm     |
% |---------|
% |  header |
% |-+-------| <-- (x y)
% |  ho     |
% |---------|
% |  text   |
% |---------|
% |  fo     |
% |---------|
% |  footer |
% |-+-------| <-- (0 0)
% |  bm     |
% |---------|

% -- |- x y
/HeaderFrameStart{0  PrintHeight HeaderOffset add}def
/FooterFrameStart{0  FooterHeight FooterOffset add neg}def

/doFramePath{
  /h exch def
  PrintHeaderWidth	0	rlineto
  0			h	rlineto
  PrintHeaderWidth neg	0	rlineto
  0			h neg	rlineto
}def

/HeaderFramePath{HeaderHeight doFramePath}def
/FooterFramePath{FooterHeight doFramePath}def

% /path-fun /start-fun vector-property doFrame
/doFrame{
  /vecFrame exch def
  /startFrame exch load def
  /pathFrame exch load def
  gsave
    vecFrame 2 get setlinewidth				% frame border width
    % ---- do the shadow of the next rectangle
    startFrame moveto
    1 -1 rmoveto
    pathFrame
    vecFrame 4 get SetColor fill			% frame shadow color
    % ---- do the next rectangle ...
    startFrame moveto
    pathFrame
    gsave vecFrame 1 get SetColor fill grestore		% frame background
    gsave vecFrame 3 get SetColor stroke grestore	% frame border color
  grestore
}def

/HeaderFrame{/HeaderFramePath /HeaderFrameStart HeaderFrameProperties doFrame}def
/FooterFrame{/FooterFramePath /FooterFrameStart FooterFrameProperties doFrame}def

/HeaderStart{
  HeaderFrameStart
  exch HeaderPad add exch	% horizontal pad
  % ---- bottom up
  HeaderPad add			% vertical   pad
  HeaderDescent sub
  HeaderLineHeight HeaderLines 1 sub mul add
}def

/FooterStart{
  FooterFrameStart
  exch FooterPad add exch	% horizontal pad
  % ---- bottom up
  FooterPad add			% vertical   pad
  FooterDescent sub
  FooterLineHeight FooterLines 1 sub mul add
}def

/strcat{
  dup length 3 -1 roll dup length dup 4 -1 roll add string dup
  0 5 -1 roll putinterval
  dup 4 2 roll exch putinterval
}def

/pagenumberstring{
  PageNumber 32 string cvs
  ShowNofN{(/)strcat PageCount 32 string cvs strcat}if
}def

% lines is-right HeaderOrFooterTextLines
/HeaderOrFooterTextLines{
  /is_right exch def
  HFStart moveto
  { % ---- process the lines
   aload pop
   exch F
   gsave
    dup xcheck{exec}if
    is_right{
     dup stringwidth pop
     PrintHeaderWidth exch sub HFPad HFPad add sub 0 rmoveto
    }if
    HFColor SetColor
    show
   grestore
   0 HFLineHeight neg rmoveto
  }forall
}def

% right-lines left-lines /start lineheight pad fore-color HeaderOrFooterText
/HeaderOrFooterText{
  /HFColor exch def
  /HFPad exch def
  /HFLineHeight exch def
  /HFStart exch load def

  % -- rightLines leftLines -- at stack

  % ---- hack: `PN 1 and'  ==  `PN 2 modulo'
  % ---- if even page number and duplex, then exchange left and right
  PageNumber 1 and 0 eq SwitchHeader and{exch}if

  % ---- process the left lines
  false HeaderOrFooterTextLines

  % ---- process the right lines
  true HeaderOrFooterTextLines
}def

/HeaderText{
  HeaderLinesRight HeaderLinesLeft
  /HeaderStart HeaderLineHeight HeaderPad
  HeaderFrameProperties 0 get
  HeaderOrFooterText
}def

/FooterText{
  FooterLinesRight FooterLinesLeft
  /FooterStart FooterLineHeight FooterPad
  FooterFrameProperties 0 get
  HeaderOrFooterText
}def

/ReportFontInfo{
  2 copy
  /t0 3 1 roll DefFont
  /t0 F
  /lh FontHeight def
  /sw( )stringwidth pop def
  /aw(01234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz)dup length exch
  stringwidth pop exch div def
  /t1 12/Helvetica-Oblique DefFont
  /t1 F
  gsave
    (languagelevel = )show
    languagelevel 32 string cvs show
  grestore
  0 FontHeight neg rmoveto
  gsave
    (For )show
    128 string cvs show
    ( )show
    32 string cvs show
    ( point, the line height is )show
    lh 32 string cvs show
    (, the space width is )show
    sw 32 string cvs show
    (,)show
  grestore
  0 FontHeight neg rmoveto
  gsave
    (and a crude estimate of average character width is )show
    aw 32 string cvs show
    (.)show
  grestore
  0 FontHeight neg rmoveto
}def

% cm to point
/cm{72 mul 2.54 div}def

/ReportAllFontInfo{
  % key = font name   value = font dictionary
  FontDirectory{pop 10 exch ReportFontInfo}forall
}def

% 3 cm 20 cm moveto  10/Courier ReportFontInfo  showpage
% 3 cm 20 cm moveto  ReportAllFontInfo          showpage

% === END ps-print prologue 1

/printGlobalBackground{
}def
/printLocalBackground{
}def
/h0 14(Helvetica-Bold)cvn DefFont
/h1 10(Helvetica)cvn DefFont
/L0 6(Times-Italic)cvn DefFont
/H0 10(Helvetica)cvn DefFont


% ---- These lines must be kept together because...

/h0 F
/HeaderTitleLineHeight FontHeight def

/h1 F
/HeaderLineHeight FontHeight def
/HeaderDescent    Descent def

/H0 F
/FooterLineHeight FontHeight def
/FooterDescent    Descent def

% ---- ...because `F' has a side-effect on `FontHeight' and `Descent'

/f0 12(Courier)cvn DefFont
/f1 12(Courier-Bold)cvn DefFont
/f2 12(Courier-Oblique)cvn DefFont
/f3 12(Courier-BoldOblique)cvn DefFont
/SpaceWidthRatio 0.600000 def

%%EndProlog

%%BeginSetup

%%BeginFeature: *ManualFeed False
BMark /ManualFeed false EMark setpagedevice
%%EndFeature

BeginDoc
%%EndSetup

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/Lines 32 def
/PageCount 1 def
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/LineNumber 1 def
/PageNumber 1 def
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/FooterLinesRight[
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("timbyact" <-) S
LHL
(  function\(dattim, act\)) S
LHL
({) S
LHL
(  ## Purpose: Calculate durations of activity phases) S
LHL
(  ## ----------------------------------------------------------------) S
SL
(------) S
LHL
(  ## Arguments: dattim = chron object with date and time;) S
LHL
(  ## act = numeric vector representing activity for each row) S
LHL
(  ## ----------------------------------------------------------------) S
SL
(------) S
LHL
(  ## Author: Sebastian Luque) S
LHL
(  ## ----------------------------------------------------------------) S
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(------) S
LHL
(  ## Lagged differences in activity; 0 = no change from previous acti) S
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(vity) S
LHL
(  diffact <- diff\(act\)) S
LHL
(  interval <- as.numeric\(diff\(dattim[1:2]\)\)) S
LHL
(  ## vector defining the points where activity changes) S
LHL
(  ## First element = first time - first lagged time difference, follo) S
SL
(wed by) S
LHL
(  ## all times when activity changed, followed by) S
LHL
(  ## last element = last time + first lagged difference) S
LHL
(  timbr <- c\(dattim[1] - interval,) S
LHL
(             dattim[which\(diffact !=0\)],) S
LHL
(             dattim[length\(dattim\)] + interval\)) S
LHL
(  ## Create the factor to break all sequences with the same activity) S
LHL
(  cuttimbr <- cut\(dattim, br = timbr\)) S
LHL
(  timsplit <- split\(dattim, cuttimbr\)) S
LHL
(  begtim <- sapply\(timsplit, "[", 1\)) S
LHL
(  endtim <- sapply\(timsplit, function\(x\) {x[length\(x\)]}\)) S
LHL
(  duration <- endtim - begtim + interval) S
LHL
(  list\(tim.breaks = cuttimbr,) S
LHL
(       tim.peract = duration,) S
LHL
(       begtim = begtim,) S
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(       endtim = endtim\)) S
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(}) S
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EndPage
EndDSCPage
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%%Pages: 1

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%%EOF

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Re: ps-print problems

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 17.08.2005 um 16:08 schrieb Sebastian Luque:

> ESP Ghostscript 815.00: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) 
> return code = -1
>

I think that's it!

I am using Ghostscript 8.51 and can see your attachment in gv that it 
is the function timbyact from the R file timbyact.R in 
~/Scripts/R/pkgs/diveMove/src/R/ from 08/17/2005.


Actually there should not be any reason why gs is being invoked. 
Except, it's an error message from CUPS, which is a product of the 
company ESP! GNU just should 'wrap' the text into PostScript and pass 
this to the printing system, no gs needed for Emacs. (Maybe except the 
case when Emacs is taught to prepare the output for a non-PS printer, 
then it would need to convert PS to EscP2/PJL or such -- I never used 
such scrap so I am no help here.)


To find out a bit more: try to print *not* to the print spooler but a 
file or buffer (you received advice). Any error here?

Then take this file or save the buffer to a file and try to view it in 
gs/gsx/gv or whatever you use to view PS files. (Or can you retrieve 
from the PS file the text with ps2ascii?) Any error?

Finally send the PS file via lp/lpr to the printer. Any error now?


I am quite sure that only the last attempt will produce an error making 
sure that the CUPS based printing system is not OK. Do you have the 
right PPD file for your printer? In case it's not a PS printer: can you 
print other PS or PDF files (both might be coming from TeX)?

--
Greetings

   Pete

There's no place like ~
                           (UNIX Guru)

Re: ps-print problems

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 17.08.2005 um 16:08 schrieb Sebastian Luque:

> %%DocumentMedia: Letter 612 792 0 () ()
>

Just saw this: is your printer really using non standard 'letter' 
format? Or is it using ISO A4?

You should customize that! It might cause the error (like filling 
diesel in your car equipped with a gas motor) ...

--
Greetings

   Pete

                   Sorry my terrible English, my native language Lisp!

Re: ps-print problems

[Sebastian Luque]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:53:11 +0200,
Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> wrote:

[...]

> To find out a bit more: try to print *not* to the print spooler but a
> file or buffer (you received advice). Any error here?

I think there was a misunderstanding.  This is precisely what I did in my
previous message:

1. Open my file ~/Scripts/R/pkgs/diveMove/src/R/timbyact.R, which is the
   function in my attachment, only a few lines long.  I should note that
   the failure occurs with any file or buffer that I print.
2. C-u ps-print-buffer and saved it to ps-print-out.ps (thanks Jochen)
3. Opened ps-print-out.ps with gv.

So that last step gave me the error lines like the one I showed.


[...]

> I am quite sure that only the last attempt will produce an error making
> sure that the CUPS based printing system is not OK. Do you have the
> right PPD file for your printer? In case it's not a PS printer: can you
> print other PS or PDF files (both might be coming from TeX)?

Yes, everything prints fine outside Emacs, and it has been since I first
configured my system.  It's only stuff that I print with ps-print in Emacs
that stopped working in the last few days.

Now I just found out that print-buffer prints without errors, but...the
left margin is cut off by one column, the right margin looks fine.  It
smells as if this might be related to the ps-print error (maybe the
setpageadvice message?)

Thanks,
-- 
Sebastian P. Luque

Re: ps-print problems

[Sebastian Luque]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> wrote:

[...]

> Finally send the PS file via lp/lpr to the printer. Any error now?

I forgot to add that I also get the error using 'lpr ps-print-out.ps' from
a shell.

I'm quite stuck now.

Cheers,
-- 
Sebastian P. Luque

Re: ps-print problems

[Sebastian Luque]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> wrote:

[...]

> Just saw this: is your printer really using non standard 'letter' 
> format? Or is it using ISO A4?

Yes, it is letter size paper, and I've set the printer driver to use this
size (in KDE print manager), as well as in texconfig (for all the
TeX/LaTeX related programs).


> You should customize that! It might cause the error (like filling diesel
> in your car equipped with a gas motor) ...

Is there any other place where this needs to be customized, besides those
mentioned above?


Cheers,

-- 
Sebastian P. Luque

Re: ps-print problems

[Ralf Angeli]

* Sebastian Luque (2005-08-17) writes:

> I forgot to add that I also get the error using 'lpr ps-print-out.ps' from
> a shell.
>
> I'm quite stuck now.

Is that with gs-esp 8+8.15rc3 on Debian/sid?  There are quite some
error reports about the problem with the font renderer at
<URL:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323430>.  A
downgrade should help as a workaround.

-- 
Ralf

Re: ps-print problems

[Sebastian Luque]

Ralf Angeli <dev.null@iwi.uni-sb.de> wrote:

[...]

> Is that with gs-esp 8+8.15rc3 on Debian/sid?

Yes indeed, and that makes sense as I haven't changed anything in Emacs
that could have caused these recent errors, so I can only see a possible
culprit outside of it.

Thank you, I'll try downgrading gs-esp for the moment and see if that
solves the problem.


-- 
Sebastian P. Luque

Re: ps-print problems

[Sebastian Luque]

Ralf Angeli <dev.null@iwi.uni-sb.de> wrote:

[...]

> Is that with gs-esp 8+8.15rc3 on Debian/sid?

Yep, that was it, I downgraded to the testing version, and ps-print is
working fine again.


Thank you!

-- 
Sebastian P. Luque

Re: ps-print problems

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 17.08.2005 um 17:26 schrieb Sebastian Luque:

> Now I just found out that print-buffer prints without errors, but...the
> left margin is cut off by one column, the right margin looks fine.  It
> smells as if this might be related to the ps-print error (maybe the
> setpageadvice message?)
>

Fine, that it's not a real GNU Emacs problem (BTW: I found one too when 
working on the problem: when I want to ps-print-*-with-faces a `list´ 
face is missing!). And fine that you now see that margin problem: I am 
sure it comes from the fact that GNU Emacs creates PostScript print 
jobs for the U.S. letter format while your printer uses the world wide 
ISO A4 format. You should customize printing and PS printing 
particularly that they match!

--
Greetings

   Pete

A child of five could understand this!  Fetch me a child of five.

Re: ps-print problems

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 17.08.2005 um 17:51 schrieb Sebastian Luque:

>
>> Finally send the PS file via lp/lpr to the printer. Any error now?
>
> I forgot to add that I also get the error using 'lpr ps-print-out.ps' 
> from
> a shell.

So it is what I thought at once: the ESP CUPS software fails! (Great?)

>
> I'm quite stuck now.
>

Try http://localhost:631/!

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Re: ps-print problems

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 17.08.2005 um 18:15 schrieb Sebastian Luque:

>> You should customize that! It might cause the error (like filling 
>> diesel
>> in your car equipped with a gas motor) ...
>
> Is there any other place where this needs to be customized, besides 
> those
> mentioned above?
>

In the first line it's the PostScript group that then reveals some 
topics. The other object is AUCTeX, in case you use it. This is enough: 
more than 100 things to customize!

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Re: ps-print problems

[Lennart Borgman]

Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 17.08.2005 um 17:26 schrieb Sebastian Luque:
>
>> Now I just found out that print-buffer prints without errors, but...the
>> left margin is cut off by one column, the right margin looks fine.  It
>> smells as if this might be related to the ps-print error (maybe the
>> setpageadvice message?)
>>
>
> Fine, that it's not a real GNU Emacs problem (BTW: I found one too 
> when working on the problem: when I want to ps-print-*-with-faces a 
> `list´ face is missing!). And fine that you now see that margin 
> problem: I am sure it comes from the fact that GNU Emacs creates 
> PostScript print jobs for the U.S. letter format while your printer 
> uses the world wide ISO A4 format. You should customize printing and 
> PS printing particularly that they match!

This might also partly be an Emacs problem indeed, at least on MS 
Windows since there Emacs does not fetch the registry setting for 
printing format.