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

[Chris Kesler <chris@pconline.com>]

You guys were right!  All I got from gs -help was an error message about
libpng being unable to open a file.  So I upgraded my ghostscript and the
fonts to 5.50 and printtool started working.  I'm surprised RedHat doesn't
list that on their errata page.

Thanks a bunch,
Chris

On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Schlough, Mark (NM IT) wrote:

> Note:
> 
> If this is a stock RH 6.0 install, you should upgrade ghostscript (and
> ghostscript fonts) to 5.50
> 
> I found that there are some problems with the stock ghostscript RPMS.  This
> may be contributing to your problem.
> 
> Mark
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Sandipan Panigrahi [SMTP:pani@frontiernet.net]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, July 21, 1999 11:14 AM
> > To:	tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> > Subject:	Re: [TCLUG:7098] Need help with RedHat's printtool
> > 
> > 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
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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