Re: printing problem


Subject: Re: printing problem
From: Richard Goldberg (rickg@yorku.ca)
Date: Tue Jan 30 2001 - 10:05:09 EST


On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Christian Schmidt wrote:

> Richard Goldberg wrote:
>
> > When I try to print someting, I get an error on the mac saying
> > "Document could not be printed on printer "Printername" because of a
> > PostScript error". In the log file on my atalkd server I get:
> >
> > Jan 26 13:31:27 <server> papd[9128]: getppdent: line too long
> > Jan 26 13:31:27 <server> papd[9128]: lp_init: lock: No such file or directory
> > Jan 26 13:31:27 <server> papd[9128]: lp_open failed
>
> I always got the same message although my printer worked fine.
> I got rid of it by transferring the PPD file via ftp as ASCII Text
> onto the server.
> => It was a problem resulting from the different LF/CR handling.
>
> > I thought the "line too long "error was due to the lf/cr issue between mac
> > and unix but I ran tr "\015" "\012" < orig.ppd > temp.ppd and the
> > error still comes up.
>
> Try ftp-ing it from the mac to the server and choose "ASCII Text"
> transfer mode.
>
> > I know I can fix the other error (lp_init/lp_open) by changing the conf
> > file to
> > :pr=|/usr/bin/lpr -Ptest:\
> > are there any disadvantages to this?
>
> No, I don't think so.
>

I tried to ftp it in ascii mode with the same result.

-Rick Goldberg



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