Perhaps I'm Going A Little Too Far For A Pda... Options

[iamasmith]

Oh my, I only had to builde xfprint and espgs (they aren't in ports) and I have a full local printing system working..

lpr output to my Epson Stylus photo... (including typo of lpw instead of lpq when trying to do things in a rush )
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Starting to print from AbiWord
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AbiWord documents queued (shown in xfprint-manager)
 xfce3.jpg ( 65.27K ) Number of downloads: 170


CUPS spooler history
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This stuff rocks and is obviously great if you are in a bind and need to print something somewhere... a couple of pointers though if you are going to build these addon bits..

xfprint requires a2ps so be sure to install that from the ports first

espgs (ESP Ghostscript) is required for local despooling... you must make sure that you install the jpeg and libpng sources locally into the build tree before building

I used 'gmake' and 'gmake install' to get them installed on my Z... have found that a lot of this stuff has GNU'isms in the makefiles.

- Andy

[BarryW]

What I want to know is why can the Z's do this by default?? I'd love to be able to print from my 6000.