Re: problem with apsfilter and abiword

[Mark Devin <mdevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry about not posting correctly.  I hope this is better.

Thank you for being so patient with me.

Here is my steps again:

1.  Edited the /usr/share/apsfilter/bin/apsfilter file to remove the #
in
front of set -x to enable debugging.

2.  Here is the relevant portion of my /etc/printcap file:
bjc4200|Printer1 auto:\
    :lp=/dev/printers/0:\
    :if=/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\
    :sd=/var/spool/lpd/bjc4200:\
    :lf=/var/spool/lpd/bjc4200/log:\
    :af=/var/spool/lpd/bjc4200/acct:\
    :mx#0:\
    :sh:

3.  Changed the permissions of /var/spool/lpd/bjc4200/log to rw for
everyone.  ls -l now shows:
-rw-rw-rw-    1 daemon   lp              0 Feb 26 22:13
/var/spool/lpd/bjc4200/log

4.  Ran abiword and created a file called "~./Documents/test.abw   ->
this file only had the word "test" written on the first line of the
document.

5.  Asked abiword to print the document to a file (from the print
command) -> it created a file called:
test.abw.ps

6.  file test.abw.ps  -> shows:
test.abw.ps: PostScript document text conforming at level 2.0

7.  Sent the file to the printer with the following command:
cat test.abw.ps | lpr -P bjc4200

8.  Again the same thing happens.  The printer outputs one small black
strip (the same length as the word "test") - If I type more words then I
get more black strip.

9.  The log file is empty.   ls -l /var/spool/lpd/bjc4200/log
-rw-rw-rw-    1 daemon   lp              0 Feb 26 22:13
/var/spool/lpd/bjc4200/log

I hope I have answered all you questions correctly.  It doesn't make
sense to me.

Thanks for your persistence on this problem.

Mark.