Apsfilter requires usually two invocations in order to print a document. Unfortunately, since I installed Apsfilter first, I cannot tell whether this is a problem with lpr itself. I may have to wipe the apsfilter portion of printcap clean in order to test this. Fix: none How-To-Repeat: Compile apsfilter from ports. Go through the setup utility. In my case the driver was generic postscript, 600dpi, /dev/lpt0, parallel port, and some minor params I have forgotten.
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On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 11:28:12PM +0000, Tilman Linneweh wrote: > Synopsis: Apsfilter (or lpr) operates erratically > > Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->andreas > Responsible-Changed-By: arved > Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Dec 17 23:27:32 GMT 2004 > Responsible-Changed-Why: > Over to maintainer > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=71934 Not reproduceable here, but I don't have a parallel port to test. I print via remote printer (printer on USB port of DSL router). >From what I see you are using a BETA version of FreeBSD 5.3. If all further troubleshooting fails - see below - I would suggest as strategy to upgrade to 5.3-STABLE via cvsup and do the usual make buildworld/installworld + new kernel after reading src/UPDATING. Updating with mergemaster should be done as well. With the few informations provided nobody can tell, where something fails on your system. What could be done is to break the printing process into several steps that might give an idea where something fails. 1. use aps2file to let apsfilter run and print the result to stdout (into a file). i.e.: aps2file file_2_print > printresult See apsfilter handbook: http://www.apsfilter.org/docs/apsfilter-handbook-current.html#usage_file 2. cat printresult > /dev/You_Print_Device If apsfilter fails at 1 you could try apsfilter debugging See handbook: http://www.apsfilter.org/docs/apsfilter-handbook-current.html#help_you_bug Good luck Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm - Powered by FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT Need a magic printfilter today ? -> http://www.apsfilter.org/
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