[Scribus] Re: Gentoo CUPS and ghostscript-afpl (WAS: Collecting scanner output...)

[Markus Roduner]

On the cups homepage (www.cups.org) they talk about espgs-8.15. I compiled the 
sources from there and it works fine. Try it, if you don't want to wait until 
they make packages.

markus

Je 2005 m. Januaro 25 d., Mardo 12:21, Morten Langlo skribis:
> tir, 25 jan, 2005, 10:39:30 +0100, skrev Craig Bradney:
> > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 02:04, Sebastian Roeder wrote:
> > > >>I have to mention that I can not use ghostscript-afpl, only "normal"
> > > >>ghostscript because afpl is kind of broken in Gentoo atm (doesn`t
> > > >> print with cups).
> > > >
> > > > It does if you use 8.15 and not 8.50. Works here perfectly.
> > > >
> > > > Craig
> > >
> > > Sorry Craig, still dosn`t work for me and I used 8.15. I unmerged
> > > ghostscript and merged ghostscript-afpl, then remerged cups and is
> > > doesn`t even print a test-page. Change ghostscript-afpl against
> > > ghostscript and it works again, even without remerging cups. A lot of
> > > troubles were reported in the forums regarding cups and this so-called
> > > server-client-error and many say it?s because of ghostscript.
> > > Do you have any tips for me - I`am a Gentooist for three month or so -
> > > not so familar with every detauil of cause. Maybe I have to remerge
> > > other ebuild to after ghostscript change to make it work?
> >
> > Sorry, no tips from me.. It just works (TM). I can switch from GS to
> > GS-AFPL any day and cups works. Do you have the CUPS use flag set?
> >
> > Got a link to a forum thread?
> >
> > Craig
>
> I think, if gs is used as a CUPS filter, the cups device is needed.
>
> Ghostscript 8.15 needs to be patched with the CUPS driver for that.
>
>
> Morten