Very Computer

I installed ghostscript 6.01from the ports collection on
my freebsd 4.2 system, but I'm not able to find the
ghostscript executable (gs) in anywhere other than
in /usr/ports/print/ghostscript6/work/gs6.01/bin/gs

I installed ghostscript by doing;

su
cd /usr/ports/print/ghostscript6
make
make install

but there are subdirectories/files in /usr/local/share/ghostscript
can anyone shed any light on this?

thanks,
echo

Quote:>but there are subdirectories/files in /usr/local/share/ghostscript
>can anyone shed any light on this?

# cd /usr/ports/print/gv
# make install
# gv file.ps or file.pdf

Graham

My guess is ghostscript wasn't successfully built.
There is a pkg you can try.

Ding

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why can't printing on unix or unix-like OS's be as easy as it's on
windows : (

regards,
Echo

Quote:>I wanted to build ghostscript, not ghostview.  My real goal
>is to do printing to a network printer (HP4000TN) thru LPRng and
>use ghostscript to convert text to postscript (or PCL).

If you could show me your /etc/printcap file (and associated scripts) then
I would be happy. As this is for work, and I am not there atm, I can't show
you what I have currently using standard lpr, not lprng.

Graham

        I used to use a hand built printcap to drive my printers with gs but
of late I have switched to apsfilter because it is easier to set up and does
a good job of fancy tricks like duplex and multipaging.

        You may be better of with an updated ports collection, gs is now up
to 6.50.

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Let me recommend apsfilter from the ports tree.  Use that and
you'll wonder why Windows makes printing so hard.

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