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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Re: Printing from Abiword in BL2
  • Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 06:57:46 +1300

Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> I don't have any user accounts. If I were to set
> one up, would I have to modify deskjet.filter

Perhaps the permissions for that file.

> or printcap

No. printcap is for lpd and lpd must be run as root.

> It is starting to seem that this is not worth the bother
> to print pdf files with linux.

Don't blame Linux. I'm sure there are plenty of Linux
distributions which can print pdf files easily.

> Is there any way to print pdf files using ghostscript
> from the command line without filters or lpd?

You don't need lpd, but you do need the filter (unless
the printer is a ps printer). It is the filter that puts
the output into a format that the printer can understand.

Cheers,
Steven




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