UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

good day! =)

i was wondering if anyone could help me with this.. i just have a question actually.. you see, i have ghostscript installed in my solaris box.. i have cygwin in my pc which i use to emulate my unix.. my pc already has "Unix Print Services" installed as a system component.. but i still can't print a PS file to a network printer (which does not have a PS personality).. i thought that once i have installed ghostscript i would be able to print in the network printer.. printing ascii files poses no problems at all BTW.. so, do i have to install ghostscript in my pc? or i'm just wrong somewhere in the solaris side?

many thanks! =)

postscript printing requires postscript drivers. Some printers do not support PS at all.

So, yes you need postscript and possibly some printer drivers on your PC.

i thought ghostscript allows you to print PS files in nonPS printers? so i should install ghostscript in my PC where i emulate unix?

thanks much!

Ghostscript for PC's (windows) is available - you don't have to use the cygwin version
http://web.mit.edu/ghostscript/www/Install.htm

Thanks for the replies jim mcnamara! =)

It turned out I was using the wrong output file which caused ghostscript not to direct it to the printer.. My bad!

fyi, our application uses cygwin that's why I was trying to do it there.. our users' PCs wouldnt be able to handle the load, I think, so we plan to install ghostscript in the print server instead..

Thanks!

=)