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Re: Printing to non NeXT printers
> The biggest thing that's holding 1.3 back is the inability to print to
non-NeXT printers. This doesn't affect most of you, but those who it does
affect have been stranded with an old copy of Executor for a while.
>
> I plan to work on this problem almost exclusively until I have it solved.
Please correct me if my information is incorrect:
>
> 1) Printing used to work to non-NeXT printers with 1.2.1
>
> 2) Printing has not worked since 1.2.2
>
> On some printers (e.g. Apple based) only the
> first page comes out
>
> On others (e.g. HP based) *nothing* comes out
>
> 3) Printing to preview has always worked
>
>
I have an Apple LaserWriter connected via AppleTalk and have been able to work
around this with 1.2.1/1.2.2 as follows:
1) Print and use Next print dialog "Save" option.
2) Run the .ps thru this script:
grep -v __NXsheetsavetoken $1 | grep -v undef | lpr
I call this lprexec, so I would do "lprexec myjob.ps".
I was able to figure out the offending PS command by looking at the
/usr/adm/lpd-errs file. As you can see, I am merely removing some offending
lines. I would recommend that others look at /usr/adm/lpd-errs to see if
there are any PS error messages when you print from Executor.
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