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From: "Dr Douglas J. Chappell" <d.chappell@mmb.usyd.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:56:20 +1100
Subject: Re: PPR: ppr 1.44 not collating jobs from Windows2000
Brian,
You wrote:
> I gave ps2ps a try for the pdf's, but it hung the spooler. Is there an
>option switch I'm supposed to add?? After inspection of the pdf's that won't
>print, they are the same as yours. the CIDInit is declared but not really
>there. Also I was really wondering about the collating issue?? I appreciate
>all the help.
No options but I am using AFPL ghostscript 7.04, freely available from
http://www.ghostscript.com. Of course it may not work in all cases.
On the collate issue there could be something like:
%%BeginFeature: *Collate True
<</Collate true>> setpagedevice
%%EndFeature
in the %%BeginSetup/%%EndSetup section of the ps files. You could save on
as a ps file on the w2k machine and look. Alternatively, and better add the
following to your printer switchset:
# ppad switchset <printer> -H keepinfile
If you temporarily stop the queue and send a test job you get the following in
/var/spool/ppr/jobs
servername:printername-XXXX.0(servername)-comments
servername:printername-XXXX.0(servername)-log
servername:printername-XXXX.0(servername)-pages
servername:printername-XXXX.0(servername)-text
servername:printername-XXXX.0(servername)-infile
where XXXX is the jobnumber.
The infile is the preprocessed postscript, the text is after ppr
has processed the postscript. It's easy to grep through for collate etc.
Also I noticed in the ppd file for a 4050 series laserjet that 16 MB was
needed for collate to work (or 8MB and a disk). I don't know how generally
true this is???
If it is a problem with the postscript from the w2k machine you could try the
adobe ps drivers for windows - a free download from http://www.adobe.com. You
need to download the ppd files as well if you don't have them handy.
My apologies if you already know all this stuff,
Doug
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