Re: .eps file displays with gv but will not print

> Hi Bob
>
> you wrote:
> > I think I found the problem, and it must be in either octave or  
> gnuplot.
> > There is a line in the CUPS error log for a non-printing file:
> > E [13/May/2008:15:03:13 -0700] [Job 818] No %%Pages: comment in  
> header!
> As I understand it, it is not bug, but a feature.
> That is the difference between *.eps and *.ps,
> *.ps documents have pages, but *.eps should not have
> pages, as I understand it, *.eps are for usage in documents,
> they are not supposed to be stand alone printable documents.
>
> Regards,
>
> Stefan

> 2008/5/14 Bob Odom <odom@...>:
> Thomas,
>
> I think I found the problem, and it must be in either octave or  
> gnuplot.
>
> There is a line in the CUPS error log for a non-printing file:
>
> E [13/May/2008:15:03:13 -0700] [Job 818] No %%Pages: comment in  
> header!
>
> I looked at a file with no problems, and saw that directly below
> %%EndProlog  is the line
> %%Page: 1 1
>
> I manually edited the non-printing file and added the line "%%Page:  
> 1 1"
> directly below the "%%EndProlog" statement. That file now prints.
>
> So the problem is in the generation of the PostScript. This seems to  
> be
> a genuine bug, but is it an octave problem or a gnuplot problem?
>
> Bob
>
> On Tue, 13 May 2008, Bob Odom wrote:
>
> > Thomas,
> >
> > Yes, I am using CUPS. Here are a few lines from the log file:
> >
> > I [13/May/2008:11:45:45 -0700] Adding start banner page "none" to  
> job
> > 814.
> > I [13/May/2008:11:45:45 -0700] Adding end banner page "none" to  
> job 814. I [13/May/2008:11:45:45 -0700] Job 814 queued on "super" by  
> "odom".
> > I [13/May/2008:11:45:45 -0700] Started filter
> > /usr/lib64/cups/filter/pstops (PID 21414) for job 814.
> > I [13/May/2008:11:45:45 -0700] Started backend
> > /usr/lib64/cups/backend/lpd (PID 21415) for job 814.
> > E [13/May/2008:11:45:45 -0700] [Job 814] No %%Pages: comment in  
> header!
> >
> > The job seems to be sent to the printer, as the printer screen  
> echoes
> > "odom file_eps" and then after a while "Done: odom file_eps"
> >
> > I have exactly the same problem on a different computer also running
> > SuSE 10.2 and same installations of octave and gnuplot. I am also  
> using
> > CUPS on that machine.
> >
> > Bob
> > On Tue, 13 May 2008, Thomas Weber wrote:
> >
> >> On 13/05/08 13:08 -0700, Bob Odom wrote:
> >>> generates "plot1.eps" just fine. I can display it with 'gv'.  
> However it
> >>> will not print from gv. It will not print directly from octave  
> using
> >>>
> >>> print ('-Pprinter', '-depsc2');
> >>>
> >>> Nor will it print from the command line with 'lpr -Pprinter  
> plot1.eps'.
> >>
> >> What print system are you using (probably CUPS). What's in its log
> >> files (try setting the loglevel to DEBUG or how it's called  
> there)? Is
> >> anything sent to the printer?
> >>
> >>      Thomas
> >>
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