From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 16 16:38:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E39637B40A for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 16:38:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pjklist@ekahuna.com) Received: from pc-02 (pc02.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.197]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 16:38:22 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 16:38:28 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Better printing from the command-line Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Message-ID: <3B2B8B84.15765.5FC2FA@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) 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 I've setup LPD printing to a remote HP Laserjet (using a DirectJet card) on a 4.3-STABLE box. And it works fine in all the basic ways. However I'd like to do some *rudimentary* jazzing up of the printouts, ie something as simple as setting the font to 12-pitch instead of 10-pitch so that certain manpages and text documents don't end up with truncated lines. Even though I'm using the "magicfilter" port which has a specific filter for the HP Laserjet, it doesn't appear to have any settings which can do something as simple as change the font pitch. I hear good things about the "APSfilter" port but that appears to require X, which I don't usually run. Is there any other kind of utility with a few basic built-in switches to do minor formatting on a Laserjet 4MPlus? This printer supports Postscript too but it would seem simpler to just use PCL commands. I hope I don't end up having to write my own scripts just to send commands to the printer.. Thanks, Phil -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message