using ps2ps with cups

[Helge Blischke]

Link wrote:
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> I have a small problem. One of my clients would like to use cups for there printing needs. As it currently stands several of there printers claim to be PS level 2 compliant but PS jobs do not print (Stack errors with something about a 'do') if I run the job through ps2ps then send it to the printer it prints. So I wrote a simple filter that did not amount to much more than a script file with the line
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> ps2ps "$6" -
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> in it. To my understanding this should take the file to be printed, run it through ps2ps and output it back to the cups printing system.
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> I set up a mime type in the ppd file and the logs show it to be sending the job to the filter. What I get back from the filter is the same thing I send the filter. There are no changes to the file. What am I doing wrong?
> 
> On a side note it would appear that ps2ps is not the best soulation. It does however create a job that the printer can handle.
> These files are large and complex, the document calls 37 different fonts (none are embedded in the document), 4 paper types, and several pages of graphics that are vector drawn using postscript. When using ps2ps we loose the calls to the different paper (media) types which we will need!
> 
> Thanks for any help you can offer.

Please post an URL to a sample file which does not print and tell us
what the printers
are (make and model) that cause problems. Perhaps there is a chance to
emulate
things the printer(s) don't handle.

Helge

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Helge Blischke
Softwareentwicklung
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