Re: scaling problems with 7.2.1

[Michael Loßin <phallobst@xxxxxx>]

On 14-Feb-02 Shaun Jurrens wrote:
> hi again,
> 
> just an update on the scaling problems.  I tried the gimp driver and the
> test print worked ok, but with much lower quality (300dpi).  Printing with
> it did _not_ however, work.  The print crashed with the stp driver not
> handling the "plain" option (for paper type):
> 
> Plain is not a valid media type
> AFPL Ghostscript 7.03: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> awk: cmd. line:1: (FILENAME=- FNR=3140) fatal: print to "standard output"
> failed
>  (Broken pipe)

There are several incompatible releases of gimp-print around,
so we had to focus on one -- which is the current 4.2.0 version.
The previous releases used "Plain paper" or something similar.

The awk error is just a result of ghostscript failing ("broken
pipe" means awk is writing the data without gs reading it).

> The omni driver did not want to install even though SETUP could list it as
> one of the installed drivers.  I just got into an endless loop of SETUP
> telling me the driver isn't there and then listing it again, but there are
> omni drivers installed: 

There are driver scripts available, but they rely on the "omni"
driver built into ghostscript, which is not available in your
case (it's a 3rd party driver).

> Ghostview also displays the pages with the correct scaling.

This is wierd... Ghostview is just a frontend for ghostscript,
so there shouldn't be any differences...


Michael