From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Endless Story" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Recipe for ps-print-buffer on a Linux system, using Ghostscript to go to PCL printer? Date: 26 Dec 2006 07:23:40 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1167146620.370969.317170@i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1167135260.106056.187720@h40g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167147642 27864 80.91.229.10 (26 Dec 2006 15:40:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:40:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 26 16:40:40 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 1GzEPr-00053L-Aw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:40:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GzEPq-00025g-SG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 10:40:34 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.84.224.81 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1167146626 8971 127.0.0.1 (26 Dec 2006 15:23:46 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:23:46 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.02 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=162.84.224.81; posting-account=JP8pbg0AAADYDr61n41ZYs45c0xuivey Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144324 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:39927 Archived-At: Yup, got CUPS. And you'd think it would handle PostScript conversion for Emacs as for all else - but at the moment it doesn't seem to. Peter Dyballa wrote: > 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.