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[Jason Flatt <jasonflatt AT wizard.com>]

FYI, I'm removing the omni people from this replay as I suspect that they 
will 
be uninterested in SMGL stuff.


On Tuesday 24 December 2002 05:23 pm, John T Copeland wrote:
>
> Jason, Mark,
> A follow up and final on this.  I finally got my printer to work
> properly.  I did the following to get there.
> 1) Downloaded omni-0.7.2.  Configured, compiled, installed AOK.
>  libomni.so showed up in /opt/omni/lib.  Mark, I had a small proplem
> here.  I deleted all the printers in devices.mak except Panasonic, and
> the compile failed with some error related to Hewlett Packard.  I add HP
> back to devices.mak and compile went OK.
> 2) Downloaded espgs-7.05.5 from the CVS, did a makesrcdist, replaced my
> version in /var/spool/sorcery.  An install(cast -r -c) of espgs then
> configured, compiled, and installed OK.
> 3) Reviewed all my cupsomatic and PPD stuff
> 4) Printed a simple text file OK
> 5) Tried the test print in CUPS, and it failed looking for a particular
> font.
> 6) Investigation showed the standard ghostscript fonts had disappeard.
>  Probably because espgs install had done away with them.
> 7) Installed(cast -r -c) ghostscript-fonts-std, and the CUPS test ,
> print a test page, worked.
>
> Jason, it appears the espgs spell needs to be upgraded for the omniprint
> driver.  You copy?
> JohnC


In attempting to provide solution(s) for you (and others who would be 
interested in persuing a similar path), I have come up with some questions 
for you:

1)  Did you build Omni from the source tar, or from CVS?
2)  Did you use GCC 2 or 3?
3)  Did you answer "y" to including Omni in ESPGS, or not?
4)  Did you build Omni as an integral part of ESPGS, ie: copied the Omni 
source into the appropriate place within the espgs source, or as a separate 
package?
5)  Are you suggesting that there may need to be some sort of trigger which 
causes ghostscript-fonts-std to be recast after espgs, or was that just a 
fluke?

My plan is to create a separate spell for Omni and a dev/cvs spell for espgs. 
 
If Omni does not work correctly (or at all) with the way it is currently 
implemented (as an integral part of espgs), then I will remove it.


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Jason Flatt
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