Re: [TCLUG:7098] Need help with RedHat's printtool

[Sandipan Panigrahi <pani@frontiernet.net>]

printtool is just a tcl script. To get the list of the devices it looks
up :
/usr/bin/gs -help.
If the output of that command doesnot show any "Available devices" it
will give you that find_gs error.

Run the above and see if you can see any devices listed at all. If you 
do not then it will point to a problem with your ghostscript 
installation. If it does then I am not sure what could be going wrong.

You could try running it from the control-panel instead of by itself. 
Start control-panel and then click on the "printtool" icon, this
might make it load up some macros that it cannot find otherwise.

Hope this helps.

regards,
sandipan


Chris Kesler wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to set up a printer on my "everything server".  It's a RedHat
6
> system with no X server installed.  I telnet to it and set the DISPLAY
> variable to display on another machine. Then when I run printtool, the
> printtool window appears but I can't do anything with it.  And I get
this
> in my terminal:
> 
> Error - couldnt find available devices in find_gs
>         this should not happen!
> Error - couldnt find available devices in find_gs
>         this should not happen!
> 
> That keeps repeating until I kill it with CTRL-C.  I don't know what
> find_gs is.  I have ghostscript and all of the other packages that 'rpm
> -qR printtool' says I need.  Does anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
>