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Posted: June 26 2004,18:37 QUOTE

I have an elementary question.

I used apsfilter to setup my usb printer and successfully printed a test page. I thought I would try printing from an app (abiword) so I went to the control panel and turned printing on. When I try to print from a document in AbiWord, nothing happens. Can someone give me an idea on what I need to do? Thanks

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Posted: June 26 2004,23:47 QUOTE

Two ways.

When the print dialog box opens in Abiword it only has lpr
You should add so that it reads as such:

 lpr  -h -Plp

Where lp is the name of the printer that you created in Apsfilter.
When you get bored doing that each time then:

edit /opt/bootlocal.sh and add:

export PRINTER=lp

Again where lp is the name of the ptrinter that you created with apsfilter.
Then the each time you boot your PRINTER will be defined. If running from liveCD be sure to add the /opt/bootlocal.sh to your filetool.lst
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Posted: June 27 2004,00:22 QUOTE

So when I add the entry into bootlocal.sh the printer will show up for any application that has a print option?

Thanks, Robert.

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Posted: June 27 2004,01:05 QUOTE

The printer options will not automatically show up within an applications's dialog box. But the lpr command will work without those options.

Open a shell and type lpr --help
There you will see the PRINTER enviornment variable that I suggested by initializing in the /opt/bootlocal.sh
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Posted: July 14 2004,22:10 QUOTE

Any idea why I get this info when I try to run apsfilter from the live CD? I have successfully been able to print a test page from apsfilter on a HD install. Thanks


Ok to print testpage? [y/n] y

Creating test page...
sh: line 1: ijsgimpprint: command not found
GNU Ghostscript 7.05: Can't start ijs server "ijsgimpprint"
**** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.

real    0m0.051s
user    0m0.040s
sys     0m0.020s

Printing test page...
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Jul 14 17:07 /tmp/apsfilter882/test_page.aps

real    0m0.003s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.000s
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