1st thanks for the advice on how to get my Canon S400 up and running at the last meeting. Lots of useful ideas.
I still haven't quite got beyond the printer, whenever I print something, going through a couple of head cleaning cycles and then going back to sleep 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, to get the point at last. While browsing around the printing projects on SourceForge I came across Gimp-Print http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/index.php3 which seems to be one of the few that supports the S400 directly instead of as a BJC600. I've got hold of a copy and I'm going to give it a try. Anyone else ever used it?
Incidentally there's an article on LinuxPlanet that mentions it http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3689/1/
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"Keith Watson" keith.watson@kewill.com wrote:
OK, to get the point at last. While browsing around the printing projects on SourceForge I came across Gimp-Print http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/index.php3 which seems to be one of the few that supports the S400 directly instead of as a BJC600. I've got hold of a copy and I'm going to give it a try. Anyone else ever used it?
Had very good results with Gimp-Print on an Epson Stylus Photo 700 until it clogged its jets permanently and it's now just so much junk! Ink jets don't seem to be happy unless used frequently.
Barry Samuels
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
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.
I'm pretty impressed with GIMP-print, the range of printers supported is very large. It has a long list of Canon inkjets and even included my S400. As I'm doing a home brewed job 'stp' wasn't installed, so I re-installed CUPS, which immediately recognised my S400 and I found I could happily print as long as I used Courier, otherwise I got a bad font message from GS.
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.
I realised that the pre-built Fontmap installed by GS was mostly composed of fonts I didn't have. So I've ditched it and started building my own. I can recommend the Fonts HowTo, it was (is?) a great help.
I was amazed at how many different fonts had been installed in different places on my system. Given that there's nothing installed that I haven't explicitly installed myself. I can see that there's some tidying up to be done and a lot of reading up on fonts. ____________ Though the forest is dense, yet water flows through it freely - Zen Saying Though my head is dense, yet drink flows through it freely -Keith Saying --- This message has been scanned for computer viruses and none have been detected. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.375 / Virus Database: 210 - Release Date: 10/07/2002
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