On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 21:17:58 +1000, Richard Neal wrote: > I used to have a HP LaserJet 6L. > > Its works fine with cups accept once it totally failed. > > When you print the data light would flash on the printer then "nothing". > > The fault in the end was nothing to do with cups it was a "corrupted font" > making Ghostscript choke. > > Theres a simple method of testing ghostscript to see if a font is causing > a problem. > > 1. Open a Browser pick any web page (nothing too complex) print to file ie > print to a postcript file not a pdf, call the file lest say test.ps, you > can do this within Firefox or Konqueror. > > 2. cd /path/to/file then type gs test.ps > > If ghostscript has a problem it will now spit out an error. > Yes, yes! Aha at at last the light at the end of the tunnel.
I had compiled ghostscript-8.51 so I could compile lilypond and its documentation. I'd say this is the problem. Now, how to fix this mess up. Do I get rid of ghostscript which is in usr/local/? or try to get uncorrupted fonts? Anyway thank you for pointing me in the right direction. Shelagh > On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 10:27 +1000, Shelagh Manton wrote: [snip] > > Regards > > Richard Neal > > Real Men don't make backups. They upload it via ftp and let the world > mirror it. > -- Linus Torvalds > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
