Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 20:55:50 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel> To: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk> Cc: "Paul F. Werkowski" <pw@snoopy.MV.COM>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950407205255.3909D-100000@knobel> In-Reply-To: <873.796836524@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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On Sun, 2 Apr 1995, Gary Palmer wrote: > In message <199504021429.KAA01040@snoopy.mv.com>, "Paul F. Werkowski" writes: > > I just happened to get a DeskJet 540 last weekend and spent > > an afternoon trying to get the thing to work. I found buried > > in the ghostscript port a file called "unix-pr" along with > > some install script that created a bunch of cdj-550.x print > > queues and a printcap file that basically turned the Deskjet > > into a postscript printer. That, along with a2ps and dvips > > seems to be all that one needs to get the job done. It was > > simple enough to do but it sure would be nice to have it > > automated - or even a good pointer as to where to find the > > needed files. > > I hate to say it but apsfilter is probably a better bet that gs. AFAIR it > handles DVI files internally, so you can just lpr foo.dvi and have it print. > (although it still dvips foo.dvi, (gs -whatever) foo.ps, at least it's hidden > from you :-) ) Even lpr postscript.PS.gz dvi-file.dvi.Z ascii-text.gz picture.gif is possible with apsfilter. Thomas Bueschgens reported to me, that Thomas Esser teTeX-0.3 works really good. He wrote a shell script to setup a working config file for dvips. When fetching/porting a TeX package, I'd suggest using teTeX. It has kpathsea and many many fonts ... xdvi ... fonts will be created as needed ... a cool package ! Andreas ///
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