From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 7 14:30:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BBC837B401 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 14:30:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thor.acuson.com (ac17859.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77E9443FD7 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 14:30:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HCZ00BYWT1DT5@thor.acuson.com> for newbies@freebsd.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 14:29:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 14:20:21 -0700 Received: from dhcp-46-117.acuson.com ([157.226.46.117]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id GNSX29F1; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 14:21:45 -0700 Content-return: allowed Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 14:29:37 -0700 From: Johnson David In-reply-to: <3E91CDBA.9060803@home.nl> To: Marcel Dijk , Andy Harrison Message-id: <200304071429.37251.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Organization: Siemens Medical Systems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <3E91CDBA.9060803@home.nl> cc: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT (?): Window Maker & Printing X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 21:30:07 -0000 On Monday 07 April 2003 12:12 pm, Marcel Dijk wrote: > Is printing is *BSD like in DOS then? Every app has to find it's own > way to print. > I want to print an JPG with GIMP and text with gvim. It's like neither DOS nor Windows. It's a completely different paradigm from either. There is a printing subsystem underneath (typically lpr plus various print filters) that can print file directory without the application necessarily needing to do anything. To print a text file, for instance, type "lpr textfile.txt". When you print directly from an application (like Abiword for example), it merely converts the data to a postscript file, then calls the printing subsystem to print that postscript. Setting up the printing subsystem is the hardest part, but once it's done, the rest is very easy, but not consistant. For GIMP you print from the application. For gvim you print from the shell after you are done editing. In either case, you can typically drag the file over to a printer icon (if set one up) in KDE or Gnome. David