<HOMH@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> (06/16/91)
I down loaded Ghostscript 2.2 from SIMTEL20 on Friday. I tested it with my SVGA monitor and an LQ800 compatible printer and it worked fine. May be you can des- ribe the error a bit more specific. Note that GS22.ZIP only provides the UGLY font so that GS22 will complain but it will run. You can get other *.GSF files from various ftp sites. HOMH@QUCDN.QueensU.CA
gened@techbook.com (Gene Daniel) (06/17/91)
HOMH@QUCDN.QueensU.CA writes: >I down loaded Ghostscript 2.2 from SIMTEL20 on Friday. I tested it with my SVGA >monitor and an LQ800 compatible printer and it worked fine. May be you can des- >ribe the error a bit more specific. Note that GS22.ZIP only provides the UGLY >font so that GS22 will complain but it will run. You can get other *.GSF files >from various ftp sites. >HOMH@QUCDN.QueensU.CA I glad to see that it seems to work for the LQ800 printer, however, I can't get it to work on my Epson FX-286 printer. Many other graphic programs output graphics to this printer and I have never had any problems. I get nothing but garbage characters on the printer. It's almost like it doesn't get into graphics mode. Has anyone got Ghostscript to work on an FX-286? Any help would be appreciated. - Gene -- gened@techbook.COM ...!{tektronix!nosun,uunet}techbook!gened Public Access UNIX at (503) 644-8135 (1200/2400) Voice: +1 503 646-8257 Public Access User --- Not affiliated with TECHbooks
cdlee@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Chan-Do Lee) (06/18/91)
gened@techbook.com (Gene Daniel) writes: >HOMH@QUCDN.QueensU.CA writes: >>I down loaded Ghostscript 2.2 from SIMTEL20 on Friday. I tested it >>with my SVGA monitor and an LQ800 compatible printer and it worked >>fine. >I glad to see that it seems to work for the LQ800 printer, however, I can't >get it to work on my Epson FX-286 printer. Many other graphic programs output >graphics to this printer and I have never had any problems. I get nothing but >garbage characters on the printer. It's almost like it doesn't get into >graphics mode. Has anyone got Ghostscript to work on an FX-286? Any help >would be appreciated. I cannot get it to work on my Epson LQ-510, either. It seems that it has problems with horizontal spacing. For example, a rectangle with letters in it comes out something like: ----- | | | a| | ab | _____ rather than ----- | | | a | | ab | _____ Has anyone got it to work on an LQ-510?
jansteen@cwi.nl (Jan van der Steen) (06/18/91)
cdlee@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Chan-Do Lee) writes: >gened@techbook.com (Gene Daniel) writes: >>HOMH@QUCDN.QueensU.CA writes: >>>I down loaded Ghostscript 2.2 from SIMTEL20 on Friday. I tested it >>>with my SVGA monitor and an LQ800 compatible printer and it worked >>>fine. >I cannot get it to work on my Epson LQ-510, either. It seems that it >has problems with horizontal spacing. For example, a rectangle with >letters in it comes out something like: > > ----- > | | > | a| > | ab | > _____ > >rather than > ----- > | | > | a | > | ab | > _____ >Has anyone got it to work on an LQ-510? I noticed in "gdevepsn.c" that the Espon printer codes used for both horizontal and vertical positioning have been changed since ghostscript version 2.1.1. They used to set the linefeed and change the vertical position with a <lf>. Now the "<esc>Jn" escape sequence is used. The horizontal positioning used to be done by setting tabs. Now, "dot tabs" are used: /* Tab over to the appropriate position. */ /* Relative tabs work in half-dots. */ tab *= 2; fputc(033, prn_stream); fputc('\\', prn_stream); /* dot tab */ fputc(tab & 0xff, prn_stream); fputc(tab >> 8, prn_stream); So, it will go to the correct horizontal position by means of: "<esc>\<n1><n2>" This control sequence was not in my Epson clone manual (I have a Nakajima printer). So, maybe that's your problem too. Jan van der Steen -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jan van der Steen jansteen@cwi.nl Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
tom@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM (Tom Albrecht) (06/18/91)
In article <1991Jun17.062936.26011@techbook.com> gened@techbook.com (Gene Daniel) writes: > >I glad to see that it seems to work for the LQ800 printer, however, I can't >get it to work on my Epson FX-286 printer. Many other graphic programs output And I can't get it to work with my EX-800. Just prints a lot of junk and linefeeds. Does anyone know whether the Epson driver in gs is compatible with the EX series? Also, would the authors PLEASE put back the ability to send espon output to a file? We don't always run gs on a system with a printer directly attached. -- Tom Albrecht
w8sdz@rigel.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) (06/20/91)
Ghostscript 2.2 was uploaded to SIMTEL20 by: nate@neutron.lcs.mit.edu (Nate Liskov) PLEASE correspond with him via e-mail instead of posting to the world. He wants to help but is unable to post to Usenet news. He asked me to let you know that he's willing to help but you have to use e-mail to contact him. If you don't know how to use e-mail, press the "r" key now. I have set the "Reply-To:" address in this posting to point to his address. Keith -- Keith Petersen Maintainer of the MSDOS, MISC and CP/M archives at SIMTEL20 [192.88.110.20] Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil or w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu Uucp: uunet!umich!vela!w8sdz BITNET: w8sdz@OAKLAND