Re: printing from Abiword
Re: printing from Abiword
- Subject: Re: printing from Abiword
- From: Eric Fielding <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 21:55:10 +0000
I'm not using Abiword, but I do use Gimp. I also use the system of
defining a second printer for Postscript printing (and also printing
from my Linux computer to a USB inkjet on the Mac). I followed these hints:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20021101062604548&query=cups+print
The hints are about sharing with Windows, but the second printer
definition also works for Linux and "Unix" programs on the Mac,
including X11 programs like the Gimp.
Cheers,
++Eric
Martin Costabel wrote:
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.
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