Re: interaction of gs and apsfilter flawed. 2.1 specific problem?

[Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf@ping.net.au>]

Ulrich Flegel wrote
> 
> 
> I  wanted  to  use  apsfilter  for  printing.   I have sucessfully installes
> ghostscript  and  teTeX.   Both  are working.  I even printed directly to my
> printerdevice with gs, which worked very neatly.
> 
> lpd  queues a postscriptfile properly (watched the queue with ghostview) and
> the  gs options supplied by apsfilter look okay.  "-sOutputFile=-" and input
> from  "-",  too.   Ghostscript  is running and failing "Aladdin Ghostscript:
> Unrecoverable  error,  exit  code 1".  The errordescription printed to paper
> differs mostly!  It seems gs gets invalid input from the queue somehow.
> 
> I  don't see what's wrong and I'm pretty lost here.  A freidn uses apsfilter
> on his crappy Linux without problems :-( What am I doing wrong here???

I was faced with a similar problem about 12 month ago. I am now using
magic-filter which works like a charm eversince....

You can find on my ftp-server

	ftp://ftp.ping.net.au/pub/unix/system/magicfilter-1.2.tar.gz

cheerio Berndt
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