[cups.general] Errors converting postscript to ascii

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 04 November 2004 10:21, Ryan Suarez wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>I'm attaching the printfile if it can help narrow down the
> problem...
>
>thanks,
>Ryan
>
Sheesh... 71+KB to print 'test' :(  OTOH, it renders onscreen in 
ghostscript just fine here.

But, when fed to ps2ascii, gs reports an error, and the output file 
is:
%%[ ProductName: ESP Ghostscript ]%%



ERROR: rangecheckOFFENDING COMMAND: get STACK: 1 [0 ] true 239  
(\Delta \Theta \Lambda \Delta )7134  566 -savelevel- 
%%[ Error: 
rangecheck; OffendingCommand: get ]%%

The box is a ctrl+L, aka a formfeed IIRC.

As to what caused the error, I'll leave that to the gs debuggers to 
explain.  But on the face of it, it looks to be an error in the 
Notepad ps output translator.

>Ryan Suarez wrote:
>>Greetings Admins,
>>
>>I'm using the sambafax backend for cups to serve Point'n'Print->Fax
>> to XP clients using samba 3.0.7 and cups 1.1.20.
>>
>>The problem is that the users printjob, converted to postscript
>> from samba/cups, can't be converted to ascii using ps2ascii:
>>
>><snip>
>>xprint-admin:/SC/ss/cupspykota/spool/fax# ps2ascii psfile.ps
>>%%[ ProductName: ESP Ghostscript ]%%
>>ERROR: rangecheckOFFENDING COMMAND: get STACK: 1 [0 ] true 239 
>> (\Delta \Theta \Lambda \Delta )7134  566 -savelevel- %%[ Error:
>> rangecheck; OffendingCommand: get ]%% ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1:
>> Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>></snip>
>>
>>I need the ps file converted to ascii so that I can get the
>> destination fax number from the printfile.  I don't know if the
>> problem lies with cups or samba!
>>
>>I am using the adobe print drivers for this fax queue(defprtr2.ppd,
>> ps5ui.dll, pscript.hlp, pscript.ntf, pscript5.dll) with the
>> postscript option set for "Optimize for Portability".
>>
>>Please hel
>>p!
>>
>>regards,
>>Ryan
>>
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