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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 > > |--------------------------------| > | Dr Doug Chappell | > | School of Molecular and | > | Microbial Biosciences | > | The University of Sydney, 2006 | > | NSW AUSTRALIA | > | d.chappell@mmb.usyd.edu.au | > |--------------------------------| > | Phone: 61 2 9351 2511 | > | Fax: 61 2 9351 4726 | > |--------------------------------| >