ps.select

[Andrea Giacomelli]

> 
> In article <199405161136.GAA23388 at max.cecer.army.mil> you write:
> : hi,
> : I have been trying to print ps.map output on an HP laserjet IIIp with postscript
> : cartridge , but with no success.
> : After some time spent in processing something (the .ps file, I presume...) the printer
> : just goes back to 'ready', without printing anything.
> : 
> : Has anybody else experienced a similar behaviour? 
> : 
> : 				       Andrea Giacomelli
> : 					    andreag at idra1.iar.polimi.it
> 
> We had similar problems when we had too wide paper parameters in our
> printer file ( U.S Letter instead of A4) with out HP III. Put the right
> paper size andthe ps.map should work well !
> 
> Here is our ps.devices/hpIIIps -file:
> page width: 8.2
> page height: 11.3
> top margin: 0.5
> bottom margin: 0.5
> left margin: 0.25
> right margin: 0.25
> resolution: 300
> 
> janne
> 
Ok! The strange thing now is that I created the ps.devices directory with a
file named hp in it, containing this info, but ps.select doesn't accept
hp as a legal value (though it lists it with the -l option)...what is going
on ?

			...nearly there...

					       Andrea G.