Re: [Q] printing help

Shaw Terwilliger (sterwill@postman.sourcegear.com)
Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:31:16 -0500


Poe, Ted wrote:
> I am currently using the magicfilter for ljet4. If I print a text file
> through the filter (lpr -Php4 (filename) ), I'm fine. If I print via
> AbiWord, I get a zero data sent message in my log file.

I'm not sure what's going on here. If I remember correctly, most
filter programs that work with lpr (magicfilter, apsfilter, etc.) use
file extensions to figure out the type of data being fed to it, and
call the correct filter based on that decision. We output PostScript
data, but through a pipe to lpr, and lpr might not know which filter
to start.

I would recommend printing to a file, then feeding that file through
lpr to see what filters it picks up... but print to file is causing
problems, too. :)

> To complicate manners, if I try to print to a file for printing outside of
> AbiWord, I'm seg faulting with the message:
>
> /usr/share/abisuite/bin/AbiWord: line 34: 13410 Segmentation fault
> $ABISUITE_HOME/bin/AbiWord_d "$@"

This is logged and verified bug, and it will be fixed shortly.
0.7.5 will not have this problem. Watch for a commit message to
the list on this one.

-- 
Shaw Terwilliger


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