Re: PS files not recognised when printed from a mac

[Michael Loßin <phallobst@xxxxxx>]

On 23-Feb-02 markus.schneider@s.netic.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have  MacOSX to print to my HP Laserjet 4L which is connected to a 
> SUSE 7.3 machine.
> Yes, I removed the SUSE filter and installed the apsfilter package.
> 
> However, I had trouble with the lprng, because it wouldnt print 
> postscript files even from
> the local machine.
> 
> It worked if I used the -Zauto option on lpr. So I updated the printcap 
> entry with
> append_z=auto
> 
> Now PS files print from remote and local.

This is a known problem with some spooler packages that use
"raw" mode as the default (probably SuSE-specific).
Overriding the printing method via printcap is a good solution,
although it might be better to use "prefix_z=auto" so that
you can still override "auto" if you have to (the options are
evaluated left-to-right with a preference for the rightmost
one).


Michael