[openbeos] Printing stuff (was Re: BeOS Online Image how to burn...)

I also succesfully got printing to work with BeOS R5 on AppleTalk at school, 
whereas windows didn't want to print because it didn't let me logon to the SMB 
network... ;)
(though it produced an Postscript error report each time...)

I am happy I got my printer working yesterday also...
I got an old Lexmark 4039 10+, which I couldn't get working with the PS 
driver... in fact I just had to add PPD files for Lexmark :-)

This is what I did :
downloaded MPADO_AE.EXE from 
http://drivers.lexmark.com/drivers.nsf/printer+driver/94D6D70D3F5D14F2852560F40045B48C?OpenDocument
(it's an zip file)
mkdir /etc/ppd/Lexmark
cd /etc/ppd/Lexmark
unzip ~/MPADO_AE.EXE
rm OEMSETUP.INF README.1ST
# remove the ^M at end of lines, remove ^Z at end of file.
# also fix something that the parser doesn't like
#                          2nd char is ^Z
for fic in * ; do tr -d '\r' <$fic | sed 's/ *% Present for Downward 
Compatibility//' >$(echo $fic|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' ); rm $fic; done

Something that I would change in an European distribution are the defaults to 
A4 and cm as units :-)

We can get many PPD files from Adobe: 
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=44&platform=Windows
(the ones that are already in /etc/ppd, maybe some are newer)

About VMWare... Yes the last version is known to work with BeOS, but someone 
needs to write a video driver.

En réponse à Sikosis <beos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> I actually use BeOS's appletalk to communicate with an NT 4.0 Server
> to
> print :)
> 
> I think someone has tried to run BeOS under VMWare but it's slow as
> ...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phil Greenway
> (Sikosis)
> 
>

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