Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 15:25:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Schwenk <schwenk@voicenet.com> To: Lanny Baron <beef@cybertouch.org> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing from Netscape Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980504152341.27144A-100000@omni1> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980504110359.2908A-100000@cybertouch.org>
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You need a PostScript input filter for your printing setup. I use a
script that is described in the FreeBSD Handbook section about printing.
Printing is explained very well there. Bottom line is Netscape's print
output is PostScript.
On Mon, 4 May 1998, Lanny Baron wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am finally able to print text files normally. But I tried to print the
> handbook from netscape. First it starts out with this:
>
> %!PS-ADOBE-3.0
> %%BoundingBox: 54 72 558 720
> %%Creator: Mozilla (NestScape) HTML->PS
> %%DcoumentData: Clean7Bit
> %%Orientation: Portrait
> %%Pages: 13
> %%PageOrder: Ascend
> %%Title: Filters
> %%EndComments
> %%BeginProlog
> [ /.noted /.ntodef....goes on for about 5 lines then further down the page
> it starts
>
> /C {matrix currentmatrix currentpoint translate
> 3 1 roll scale newpath 0 0 1 0 360 arc setmatrix } bind def
> /FO
> /Times-Roman findfont
>
> this goes on for a page or two and then all i see is mainly f's and
> sometimes some #'s as well.
>
>
> Can someone tell me what is going on and how to fix it.
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> * Lanny Baron *
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> | http://www.tht.net/~beef |
> | *
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