Re: Can't get apsfilter to work with my HP Deskjet 690C

[Jonas <jonasb@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 16:28:05 +0100
Carsten Neumann <deltor@snafu.de> wrote:

> On Tue, 04 Feb 2003, Jonas wrote:
> [...]
> > 
> > apspreview doesn't seem to work.
> > $ apspreview
> > error: can't find a suitable PostScript viewer
> > 
> [...]
> 
> You should install one to verify that the generated PostScript is
> correct. I prefer `gv'.
> 
> What file formats have you tried to print?
> Is PostScript itself correctly printed.
> You could try one of the examples in the Ghostscript directory:
> 
> /usr/share/ghostscript/7.05/examples/tiger.ps
> (or wherever your Ghostscript dir is located)
> is a nice one. :-)
> 
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> 

I installed gv, and apspreview works now.

I can't print ps files or text files that says ISO-8859 English text or
ASCII text when I use the file command on them. When I use file on one
of my text files it says data, I can print that file but it get printed
somehing like this:
Something dfsa
	Text
		Text
			Text