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I am trying to set up a (virtual - if this is the correct word)
printer that gets Postscript-files as input an reformats them
so that there are two pages on one A4-sheet.

I'm using SuSE Linux 6.3 and a Hewlett Packard Laserjet 4 Postscript
Printer that has its own network interface.

I wanted to use pstops for the reformatting-job (the pagespec I

manpage]). pstops can read from stdin and writes the output to
stdout so that it should work fine as a printfilter. When I try

it works as it should.

I added an entry in the /etc/printcap :

hp1_2p|remote printer on hp1:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp1_2p:\
        :rm=hp1:\
        :rp=lp:\

        :lf=/tmp/lperr:\
        :bk:sh:mx#0:

but nothing happens (no output to /tmp/lperr either). So I tried to
use a very simple Perl-script as the inputfilter instead:

#!/usr/bin/perl
open(OUTFILE, ">/tmp/lprout");
while(<STDIN>) {
    print OUTFILE $_;
    print $_;

Quote:}

with    ...
        :if=/usr/bin/echops:\
        ...
in the printcap.

This works just fine (and it also only reads from stdin and puts
stuff out on stdout, I added the OUTFILE-output for control-purposes
only). I cannot figure out why things don't go well when I use pstops.

Any ideas ? Thanks in advance !

Ingo

I am trying to set up a (virtual - if this is the correct word)
printer that gets Postscript-files as input an reformats them
so that there are two pages on one A4-sheet.

I'm using SuSE Linux 6.3 and a Hewlett Packard Laserjet 4 Postscript
Printer that has its own network interface.

I wanted to use pstops for the reformatting-job (the pagespec I

manpage]). pstops can read from stdin and writes the output to
stdout so that it should work fine as a printfilter. When I try

it works as it should.

I added an entry in the /etc/printcap :

hp1_2p|remote printer on hp1:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp1_2p:\
        :rm=hp1:\
        :rp=lp:\

        :lf=/tmp/lperr:\
        :bk:sh:mx#0:

but nothing happens (no output to /tmp/lperr either). So I tried to
use a very simple Perl-script as the inputfilter instead:

#!/usr/bin/perl
open(OUTFILE, ">/tmp/lprout");
while(<STDIN>) {
    print OUTFILE $_;
    print $_;

Quote:}

with    ...
        :if=/usr/bin/echops:\
        ...
in the printcap.

This works just fine (and it also only reads from stdin and puts
stuff out on stdout, I added the OUTFILE-output for control-purposes
only). I cannot figure out why things don't go well when I use pstops.

Any ideas ? Thanks in advance !

Ingo

I am trying to set up a (virtual - if this is the correct word)
printer that gets Postscript-files as input an reformats them
so that there are two pages on one A4-sheet.

I'm using SuSE Linux 6.3 and a Hewlett Packard Laserjet 4 Postscript
Printer that has its own network interface.

I wanted to use pstops for the reformatting-job (the pagespec I

manpage]). pstops can read from stdin and writes the output to
stdout so that it should work fine as a printfilter. When I try

it works as it should.

I added an entry in the /etc/printcap :

hp1_2p|remote printer on hp1:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp1_2p:\
        :rm=hp1:\
        :rp=lp:\

        :lf=/tmp/lperr:\
        :bk:sh:mx#0:

but nothing happens (no output to /tmp/lperr either). So I tried to
use a very simple Perl-script as the inputfilter instead:

#!/usr/bin/perl
open(OUTFILE, ">/tmp/lprout");
while(<STDIN>) {
    print OUTFILE $_;
    print $_;

Quote:}

with    ...
        :if=/usr/bin/echops:\
        ...
in the printcap.

This works just fine (and it also only reads from stdin and puts
stuff out on stdout, I added the OUTFILE-output for control-purposes
only). I cannot figure out why things don't go well when I use pstops.

Any ideas ? Thanks in advance !

Ingo