Subject: [netatalk-admins] Win95 postscript files block LaserWriter forever
From: Brian Ristuccia (brianr@osiris.978.org)
Date: Tue Oct 26 1999 - 23:25:28 EDT
When I print a postscript file created by the AdobePS4 PostScript Printer
Driver for Windows 95 with pap, it prints and then blocks the printer
forever. pap never returns. If I kill pap, the LaserWriter stays in state
"status: waiting; source: EtherTalk" until it is powercycled.
# cat xlss.ps |pap -p "LaserWriter IIg"
status: waiting
status: waiting
status: waiting
Connected to LaserWriter IIg:LaserWriter@*.
%%[ ProductName: LaserWriter IIg ]%%
%%[ Page: 1 ]%%
%%[ Page: 2 ]%%
%%[ Page: 3 ]%%
%%[ Page: 4 ]%%
%%[ Page: 5 ]%%
%%[ Page: 6 ]%%
%%[ LastPage ]%%
And then just sits there...
I had similar trouble with the driver included with Windows 95 -- but it
also caused the printer to pause for 3-10 seconds inbetween pages, and
somehow confused the printer into starting to print pages randomly about 1/4
to 1/2 the way down the physical page, with text running right off the
bottom edge.
Changing the PostScript output format, data format, and the CTRL-D values
has no effect. The LaserWriter has no trouble with PostScript documents
created by enscript, or Netscape on Linux.
-- Brian Ristuccia brianr@osiris.978.org bristucc@nortelnetworks.com bristucc@cs.uml.edu
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