[Suns-at-Home] PPD file for HP-4050N printer needed for StarOffice 5.2 on Sparc box

[der Mouse]

>> I have even tried printing to a file and manually printing using 'lp
>> -d hplaser testfile.ps' and the result is the same, so something
>> must be wrong with the postscript code that StarOffice is generating.

> The files *are* postscript, aren't they?  Check that they really do
> begin;

> %!PS-Adobe-3.0

> If not, the printer may throw them away....

<RANT>

If a supposedly-PostScript printer pays any attention to comments, it
is broken.  The only places for paying any attention to such comments
are (1) programs that must manipulate the file in more complex ways
than simply rendering the PostScript (such as selecting pages) and (2)
attempts to guess what sort of content an unknown file has.

I can't see how (1) could apply to either the printer or the driver
software.  (2) *could* apply to the printer, though I'd argue it's
broken to do so; it may well apply to the driver software.  In either
case, if there's no option to manually provide the information the
guess is attempting to deduce, I'd definitely say it's broken.
Unfortunately, in my experience, host software is frequently broken in
this way. :-(

</RANT>

Sigh.  Sorry about that.  You happened to trip over one of my perennial
annoyances, people and software that seem to think the Adobe file
structuring conventions are in some way more than just conventional
comments.

					der Mouse

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