On Jan 19, 2008, at 14:11, Matt wrote:
Hooray! I finally got my printer working! Ryan, your help compiling ppmtomd was a big step.
If anyone is curious, I typed up a complete list of the steps that I needed to take to get the printer working here:
http://forums.linux-foundation.org/read.php?19,4245,4315#msg-4315
Hopefully anyone else trying do get an alps printer working on and intel mac will find it.
Thanks for all your help!
I'm glad you got it working! But your instructions have people manually copying ppmtomd from ${prefix}/bin to /usr/local/bin. That's non-excellent. It would be better to figure out how to make it work from ${prefix}/bin. You also have people manually downloading and installing ghostscript, foomatic-rip and usbtb. We already have a port for ghostscript in MacPorts. Wouldn't it make things easier to create ports for foomatic-rip and usbtb as well?