[comp.periphs.printers] How to use GhostScript?

lmb@sat.com (Larry Blair) (04/25/91)

I posted this to gnu.ghostscript.bug and got ZERO response:

In article <328@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de> zwingel@w414zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Reinhold Zwingel) writes:
=I am new in using GhostScript (msdos). I want to print the output
=on a laserjet.
=I have the following problem:
=I have to print to print to a file, because I don't have any connection
=to the printer.
=I didn't find anything about this problems in the doc-files.

I have a similar problem.  I built gs on an HP 9000/3XX (HP-UX 7.0) with
the X11 and LaserJet drivers.  I tried to generate output for the printer
with:

% gs -DNODISPLAY
Reading ghost.ps... ghost.ps read.
Ghostscript 2.1.1  Copyright (C) 1990 Aladdin Enterprises,
   Menlo Park, CA.  All rights reserved.
Distributed by Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Ghostscript comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.
GS>1 getdevice setdevice
Printing in memory, please be patient.
GS>(acmdoc.ps) run
Loading font file ptmr.gsf... done.
Loading font file phvr.gsf... done.
Loading font file pcrr.gsf... done.
Error: /rangecheck in --setscreen--
  ostack: 0.0624961 0 --nostringval--
  estack:  operator 2094  --nostringval-- --nostringval-- operator 5ea8 --nostr\
ingval-- --nostringval-- false --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- \
false --nostringval-- --nostringval--
  dstack: 320/401 15/200 123/123

Besides something going wrong here, it is not at all apparent to me how I would
get the result to `lp' for printing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
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Larry Blair   lmb@sat.com   {apple,decwrl}!sat!lmb