100 million dollar reward to spam blocking of newsgroups

[E. Charters]

We wish.

I remember when it was the odd innocent poster who was off topic who
got flamed and these help groups were 90% useful traffic. Ah well,
the tragedy of the commons.

I installed GS 8.11 and print under foomatic-rip and foomatic-gswrapper 
with LPRng on Slackware 9.1 to a Canon 4100. I have tried to print from 
Netscape, Star Office, Abi Word, Ghostview, the command line, 
Applixware, GGV, and GIMP. I also have gimp-print installed but I have 
no way of knowing if it effects the printing of files except for GIMP 
itself. I installed a ppd file for the Canon in the spool directory. The 
printcap file "calls" foomatic from the if: and that must work. Here is 
what works and does not.

GIMP -- the graphics program in X works and prints files.

Abiword -- prints files with lpr -Pcanon

Applixware -- refuses to print, with any setting of the printer. I used
to have this printing in an older GS with lpr and aspi magic filter.

Star Office -- refuses to print with any setting. It used to print when
I set the output as LPD before upgrading ghostscript.

Gsview -- prints the file but will not print a fair number of postscript 
files, including any generated by Applixware or Star Office which are 
Postscript 3.0.

Command line: will print files with lpr -P canon, but will not print PS 
files generated by Star Office or Applixware.

Netscape -- refuses to print with command line queues given to print 
setup that works othewise. Also post script output of netscape saved to 
file will not print from command line.

I am wondering if this is a font problem?.. in that GS does not know 
about the fonts created by the wordprocessors.? GS was not compiled with
any knowledge of the wordprocessor's fonts locations. It is supposed to
substitute its own fonts if it cannot find the ones mentioned, but who
knows?

EC<:-}