Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 09:21:31 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Brother HL-L2340D printer and lpd? Message-ID: <20200506022131.GB56526@admin.sibptus.ru> In-Reply-To: <20200505202331.53374f21.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20200503171259.GA48627@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200505161952.GA34844@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200505185510.00b622e3.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200505180101.GA35751@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200505202331.53374f21.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Polytropon wrote:
[dd]
> > > > Now two questions are left:
> > > >=20
> > > > 1. How the heck do I print text files with this setup? Should I con=
vert
> > > > them to PostScript first, and how? UTF-8 Cyrillic support is crucia=
l.
> > >=20
> > > Yes, gs expects PS as its input. For programs that print
> > > (except here: Firefox), PS is the default output anyway.
> > > But if you have ASCII text, you need to turn it into PS.
> > >=20
> > > The easiest way to do this is the port "a2ps" (ASCII to
> >=20
> > a2ps from packages is broken:
> >=20
> > $ a2ps /etc/rc.conf
> > a2ps: unknown medium `libpaper'
>=20
> Install "libpaper" package and manually set a symlink in
> /usr/local/etc: papersize -> papersize.a4 for standard ISO A4
> paper, or papersize -> papersize.letter for US letter.
The package is installed and the files are present:
$ pkg info -o libpaper
libpaper-1.1.24.4 print/libpaper
$ file /usr/local/etc/papersize.*
/usr/local/etc/papersize.a4: ASCII text
/usr/local/etc/papersize.letter: ASCII text
This does not work. And I really think if a2ps does not have
UTF-8/Cyrillic support, there is not much sense for me to try and fix
it.
[dd]
> > > Personally, I use "encript" for turning ASCII reports
> >=20
> > enscript is good, but it has huge problems with Cyrillic, and is totally
> > lacking multibyte support (UTF-8).
>=20
> Correct. That's why I had to use it with ISO-8859-1 standard
> western europe character set (single byte per symbol) in order
> to get Umlauts displayed correctly. Maybe another processing
> step ("recode utf-8..koi8 <file>") can be used in the printer
> filter.
Too much info (too many glyphs) are lost this way. I'm already used to
non-koi8-compatible characters in my texts, even when they are plain
texts.
> > > > 2. How do I convince Mozilla Firefox that I now have a PostScript
> > > > printer and it can print directly to it, not just to a PDF file? It=
does
> > > > not seem to care for /etc/printcap.
[dd]
> >=20
> > Oh! I wish I knew how to add something to Firefox's print dialog!=20
> > Do you?
>=20
> If you define several printers in /etc/printcap (and not
> forget to run cap_mkdb), a system running lpr should have
> the available printers listed in Firefox's print dialog.
> Unless, of course, Firefox is hard-wired with CUPS, and
> no CUPS - no printer selection.
Looks like it's hardwired with GTK, and GTK is hardwired with
something else, and nobody knows any more how it all works.
>=20
> Another idea might be to use the variable $PRINTER to name
> the printer before starting Firefox.=20
Does not help either.=20
I've also tried tinkering with print.printer_list in about:config to no
avail.
>=20
> Currently I don't have access to a system that has both
> Firefox and lpr installed so I cannot verify this suggestion.
Anyone any ideas please?
--=20
Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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