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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 09:51:38 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Olivier Perron <perron AT art DOT alcatel DOT fr>
Reply-To: Olivier Perron <perron AT art DOT alcatel DOT fr>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Problem with DJGPP port of enscript and multi trays printer
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On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Olivier Perron wrote:
> 
> > The "right" paper tray is the number 2 which contains A4 paper, and the
> > "wrong" paper tray is the number 3 which contains A3 paper.
> 
> Do you invoke enscript with any options at all?  If so, maybe one or more 
> of these options cause the printer to choose A3 paper?
> 
No, I invoke enscript with no options at all.


> If that doesn't help, the only other idea I have is to try some other 
> program that can produce PS files and see if the same wrong tray is 
> selected then as well (which might mean that the printer somehow selects 
> that tray for any PS job).  For example, Emacs has a `ps-print-buffer' 
> command that attempts to pretty-print a buffer to a PS printer.
> 

Well, MS Word, MS Excel, Acrobat Reader do all print using the correct
tray.
Now, GhostScript use the wrong tray and so does Emacs ps-print-buffer
as it relies on GhostScript.


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