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From: Philip Cummins <philip@cs.uwa.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:50:03 +0800
Subject: Re: PPR: Disabling PPR PS Filtering?

Hello,

>As far as I know, PPR does not hold jobs with these warnings back. 
>They are pretty mild errors.  Perhaps you jobs are being held back 
>for some other reason?  Can you send me a PostScript file that 
>demonstrates the problem?  I am interested in receiving PostScript 
>files that trigger bugs in PPR.

I managed to find out what the problem was, perusing 
/var/spool/ppr/jobs/ shows that the jobs were in Level 2 PostScript. 
Without setting the PPR printers up with correct PPD files it would 
hold the jobs claiming the printer wasn't able to handle Level 2 PS, 
once set to the correct PPD (Apple LaserWriter 16/600) it's letting 
them through without any problems.

For reference, here's the document I was attempting to print (just a 
test document from www.linuxdoc.org) :

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/ps/Assembly-HOWTO.ps.gz

Thanks,

Philip