Dear friends:
May I please ask for your help with what I am sure is a very minor
configuration error which makes it impossible for me to print using
ghostscript.
As is often the case, I did something I shouldn't do, but I am sure I
corrected it. Still, whatever I did messed up my printer configuration.
I thought I needed the latest ghostscript in order to install Hylafax. I
really didn't. Well, to make a long story short, I downloaded the latest
5.50mdk ghostscript files. The main file installed fine, but the rest
refused to install because of a conflict with the 5.10 version. So, I
went ahead and deleted ghostscript (rpm -e --nodeps ghostscript), then
reinstalled the original 5.10. Everything seems all right:
[sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$ rpm -qa | grep ghostscript
ghostscript-5.10-17mdk
ghostscript-fonts-5.10-6mdk
ghostscript-X-5.10-17mdk
[sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$ whereis ghostscript
ghostscript: /usr/share/ghostscript /usr/man/man1/ghostscript.1.bz2
[sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$ rpm -q ghostscript
ghostscript-5.10-17mdk
[sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$
Well, even though everything seems to be in order, I quickly found out
that I can only print text files and nothing else. I went into
printtool, deleted my printer, added a new printer and found that the
filter list of printers includes only:
text printer
Postscript printer
In other words, the long list of printers that use ghostscript is gone.
I was told right off that "ghostscript is not installed on your system",
therefore your printing choices will be severely limited." You can say
that again.
When I tried to run the printtool tests, it printed the text sample but
when I tried to print out the Postscript sample, it told me that it can
not do this.
And yet, as you can see, ghostscript IS installed on my system.
How do I configure my printer so that I can see the list of printers,
select the HP Laser Jet 4 for my OkiPage 10e and print again, just as I
have been doing without fail until I made this stupid mistake?
Thank you so much.
Benjamin
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Benjamin and Anna Sher
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Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
