Re: printing from Abiword
Re: printing from Abiword
- Subject: Re: printing from Abiword
- From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 23:51:59 +0100
The Conways wrote:
Dear Sirs/Mams
I have the latest drivers installed for my hp deskjet. I have no problem
printing from osx. Sometimes I can print from the classic environment.
After installing the x window, I installed Abiword and I tried printing
without any success. I read all the archives concerning printing, but I am
not really sure where to start and I am a little afraid of messing up what
printing I can now do. Are there any suggestions?
The problem is that Abiword and other X11-based Unix programs send
Postscript files to the printer. This works, of course, if your printer
is a postscript printer. It doesn't work for the usual USB inkjet
printers, because Apple's version of CUPS does not include a filter for
postscript files.
It contains filters for all kinds of files, but not for postscript. One
possibility is to print to a file and then convert this postscript file
to pdf using ps2pdf from a ghostscript package. The pdf file can then be
printed using Preview or Acrobat Reader or simply by "lpr" from the
command line.
The other possibility is to install gimp-print and eps-postscript,
download from http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php3. This
includes a postscript filter for cups. You can then define a second
version of your USB printer using a driver from gimp-print. This will
then probably work with Abiword. Works for me, anyway.
--
Martin
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