OS/2 port of CUPS

[Michael Sweet]

Paul Smedley wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm working on an OS/2 port of CUPS.
> 
> Currently, I have printing to postscript printers over lpd working 
> perfectly to my Laserjet 4M.
> 
> I'm now trying to get printing working in PCL mode, so have setup the 
> laserjet 4M with laserjet.ppd.
> 
> I have two problems in pcl mode:
> 
> 1st - printing .txt or .ps files I get rastertohp exiting with status 1 
> after pstoraster exits with no errors.  Should pstoraster output debug 
> messages when debug or debug2 logging is enabled? I see debug from 
> texttops for eg, but nothing from pstoraster.
> 
> 2nd - secondly, printing a .png ends up with only the top 4cm or so of 
> the page printing, with a very thin line of text at the bottom of the 
> page, the remainder of the page is white, except for an a with a caret 
> (ie ^ above it) in the lower RH corner.
> 
> Any ideas? So far the patches for OS/2 support are pretty minor.

Binary vs. text mode on the stdin/stdout pipes?

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