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From: David Chappell <David.Chappell@mail.cc.trincoll.edu>
Date: 04 Apr 2002 20:32:27 -0500
Subject: Re: PPR: ppr 1.44 not collating jobs from Windows2000

So that is why rshd was enabled.  I have re-enabled it for now.

On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 20:56, Dr Douglas J. Chappell wrote:
> 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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> | Dr Doug Chappell               |
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> | Microbial Biosciences          |
> | The University of Sydney, 2006 |
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