Efax-Gtk error: " Not valid postscript file " ??

[Question Authority]

Hello.
I recently installed Efax -Gtk.
When attempting to send a fax, I get following error message :

" ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1 Unrecoverable error, exit code 1.

Not valid postscript file "

This happens with file extensions .txt or .odt

( Using Ubuntu 5.10 )

Any advice gratefully rec'd.

Thanks,-JS

[Florian Diesch]

Question Authority <js@myob.org> wrote:

> I recently installed Efax -Gtk.
> When attempting to send a fax, I get following error message :
>
> " ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1 Unrecoverable error, exit code 1.
>
> Not valid postscript file "
>
> This happens with file extensions .txt or .odt
>
> ( Using Ubuntu 5.10 )

You can only send Postscript and PDF files. Use some program's "Print to
file" option to convert your files to Postscript


Florian
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den Mitteln einer Talkshow. [Alexander Bartolich in dcpu]

[Chuck]

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 13:07:35 +0000, Question Authority wrote:

> Not valid postscript file
>

Although I like the program this seems to be a deal breaker. I haven't
had any luck with formats other than postscript(extension .ps). Firefox
can save as .ps files using the print function but how do we get from OOo
format to .ps?

[Stephen J. Rush]

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:57:08 -0800, Chuck wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 13:07:35 +0000, Question Authority wrote:
>

>> Not valid postscript file
>>

> Although I like the program this seems to be a deal breaker. I haven't
> had any luck with formats other than postscript(extension .ps). Firefox
> can save as .ps files using the print function but how do we get from OOo
> format to .ps?

The Open Office help says that you can generate a PostScript file by
installing a PostScript printer driver, such as the Apple Laserwriter
driver, and printing the document to that printer. One of the options in
the print menu is "print to file", which will create a .ps file if you
select a PostScript printer. There is also a2ps, the GNU
'anything-to-postscript' program that I found in Synaptic's package list.

[Chuck]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 03:16:55 -0500, Stephen J. Rush wrote:

> One of the options in the print menu is "print to file"
>

This is what I would like to use but I don't see it anymore. Some
programs like Firefox have it but in OOo 2.0 I don't see print to file as
an option. What version of Open Office are you using?

[Question Authority]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 03:16:55 -0500, Stephen J. Rush wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:57:08 -0800, Chuck wrote:
>

>> On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 13:07:35 +0000, Question Authority wrote:
>>

>>> Not valid postscript file
>>>

>> Although I like the program this seems to be a deal breaker. I haven't
>> had any luck with formats other than postscript(extension .ps). Firefox
>> can save as .ps files using the print function but how do we get from OOo
>> format to .ps?

>
> The Open Office help says that you can generate a PostScript file by
> installing a PostScript printer driver, such as the Apple Laserwriter
> driver, and printing the document to that printer. One of the options in
> the print menu is "print to file", which will create a .ps file if you
> select a PostScript printer. There is also a2ps, the GNU
> 'anything-to-postscript' program that I found in Synaptic's package list.

I solved the " not ps file " error by installing imaginary Apple laser
writer printer as advised - (thanks)- and then printing to file + faxing
the ps file --- however gtk - efax doesn't detect/ see my ESS 2838/2839
Superlink modem. Guess I'll have to rummage in basement for a hardware
modem.
-js