Keith Watson keith.watson@kewill.com wrote:
but I have uninstalled CUPS, installed a 'proper' copy of Ghostscript, and also PDQ and Magicfilter. I like PDQ, especially xpdq. I not sure that mf is giving me anything at the moment but I'm keeping it by, just in case :o). At present reading up on how fonts are handled within X, Gnome, Ghostscript, etc. because I'm pretty sure they aren't set up correctly.
Ok... if "gs -h" shows "stp" among its drivers, then it already has gimp-print built in. Mine does and that's what I use. If it doesn't, but shows "ijs" then you can build gimp-print as a sort of plugin. The instructions for that should be lurking on the gimp-print web site.
Once you've got ghostscript happily talking to gimp-print, you can head over to URL:http://www.linuxprinting.org/ and download their PDQ-o-matic's driver definition files for PDQ. I put them in /etc/pdq/drivers and then use xpdq to add the printer, selecting that driver.
Fonts are a whole barrel of worms. The main things to do are get truetype fonts running in your X server and the URW fonts installed for printing. URW fonts seem to be at URL:http://www.gimp.org/fonts.html and X server truetype fonts can be handled by xfstt or X4.x, I think.
MJR