[gobolinux-devel] A2PS problems

[Jonatan Liljedahl]

Lucas C. Villa Real wrote:
> On 1/23/07, Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon at kymatica.com> wrote:
>> I just installed A2PS from the latest recipe, and had these problems:
>>
>> * There was no Settings! So I copied them from Resources/Defaults/Settings.
> 
> Did you have a previous version of A2PS installed? And which version
> of Scripts/Compile are you running there?

I think I had the latest. (I'm on another computer right now, so I can't
check).

>> * One have to run the make_fonts_map.sh script in
>> /System/Links/Shared/a2ps/afm and replace the old fontmap file with the
>> newly created one.
> 
> Hmm. Do you have a revised recipe for that?

No, I did it manually. But it should be easy to add in the post_install
hook.

>> * It complains that "libpaper" isn't a valid medium (even though I
>> installed libpaper first), I changed it to "A4dj" (which is what I've
>> seen foomatic-rip use, perhaps it should be just "A4" instead?)
> 
> No ideas here, I've never used it..

LibPaper was also a dependency for A2PS, so I installed it before
compiling A2PS... I think libpaper is a solution to have a system or
user wide papersize setting which all apps should use. Perhaps there was
some missing configure flag so that libpaper support wasn't compiled
in... (I would like it without libpaper support anyhow, since no other
app seems to use it, so it's just yet another lib with no benefits)

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