From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 11 13:22:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-american.com (sage-american.com [216.122.141.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 448E837B406 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 13:22:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sageone (ppp-208-191-234-251.dialup.crchtx.swbell.net [208.191.234.251]) by sage-american.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA10984; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 15:22:17 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20011011152307.0191fe78@mail.sage-american.com> X-Sender: jacks@mail.sage-american.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 15:23:07 -0500 To: Mike Meyer , "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: Re: Printcap & Magicfilter Cc: Mike Meyer , In-Reply-To: <15301.63949.654326.166935@guru.mired.org> References: <20011011185916.B10968-100000@big> <15301.58663.814239.677580@guru.mired.org> <20011011185916.B10968-100000@big> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the help fellas.... I'll try these suggestions tonight.... At 02:58 PM 10.11.2001 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: >P. U. (Uli) Kruppa types: >> Here is an alternative to typing all these configs manually: >> /usr/ports/print/apsfilter >> which is a printer configuration tool. > >That's the one thing apsfilter does well. Unfortunately, it insists on >using apsfilter as the filter. This is a *much* heavier program than >magicfilter, and it insists that everything be turned into postscript, >then piped through ghostscript if necessary. This can cause printing >simple text files to fail on some printers and to be *much* more >expensive on most others. It also means you can't handle raw PCL or >PJL files with it, though that's not a big deal. > >> It worked with all (o.k.: three, now a Deskjet >> 990Cxi) HP-Deskjets I have ever used. It was >> genuinely written for use with FreeBSD and they have >> online-manuals and mailing-lists (www.apsfilter.org). > >Actually, it wasn't written for use with FreeBSD. It predates >FreeBSD. The current version may be maintained for FreeBSD, though. > >> But be warned: if you say yes to all options it will compile >> about two dozens of print-filters for all purposes - >> including a complete tex/latex-package (which I started >> loving since). And: Andreas Klemm (the maintainer) wants you >> to send him a postcard to Germany. > >That part magicfilter gets better. It detects what you already have >installed, and builds the filter to use them. > > -- >Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ >Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message