Hello Norm, thanks for your support. Actually, I found that PS and PDF documents are correctly printed, whereas that is not the case for ASCII or RAW documents. For ex., printing a text document via gedit (both using the PAPI queue and the Generic_Postscript with custom settings to: lpr -P<printer_queue>) results in printing the POSTSCRIPT code instead of the document. This also happens when a print request is made with firefox. In these (wrong) cases, it results that the printing subsystems runs a2ps to convert an ASCII file to a POSTSCRIPT one (see: /etc/lp/logs/requests) . If I run a2ps from a command shell and then print its output with ps, then things work. Thus, I suppose there is something wrong in the management of the pipelining of a2ps and lp. It is important to stress out that these problems occur both with local and network printers.
On the basis of the above, do you think that your workaround is still appropriate? If yes, what I should do in order to modify the queue? What file should I edit? And, in which build will this bug be removed? Thanks again/g.s This message posted from opensolaris.org
