Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:45:50 -0700 From: Chip <chip@wiegand.org> To: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Cc: FreeBSD Question <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Epson C62 WAS: Re: apsfilter and Epson Stylus C63 on Current Message-ID: <412D24AE.1060508@wiegand.org> In-Reply-To: <200408260140.03653.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> References: <4474c439a3.439a34474c@prodigy.net.mx> <412BDCCE.1070209@wiegand.org> <200408260140.03653.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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Thanks for the reply. I just discovered that if I save a email to a .ps file, then open it in GhostView, it will print perfectly. It's only when printed from within Mozilla Thunderbird that it prints the .ps code. In GhostView it prints to lp, in thunderbird it prints to Postscript/default which the properties show as lpr -Plp. In GhostView it shows properties for lp as local printer and Generic UNIX LPD Print System. I guess I can save every email I want to print to a file, but I shouldn't have to, and really don't want to. Regards, Chip Malcolm Kay wrote: > There is really no absolute way of detecting postscript. Most of these > filters assume that if the first two characters passed are %! then it > is postscript code but this character pair does not have to be at the > start of PS code or even anywhere in the code -- it's just a convention > that it should start with these characters; a convention that is mostly > followed. > > So it would appear likely your e-mail application is not following > the convention. Maybe a blank line precedes the traditional opening > PS line. Or maybe that line is not there at all. > > You could perhaps print the e-mail to a file and examine in detail > how it begins. With this information it should be possible to adapt > the print filter script to detect the alternative PS introduction. > Or even write a prefilter script that recognises the alternate > PS start and converts it to a more conventional start. It might > for example only need to drop a leading new line character. > > Malcolm >
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