From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 4 12:25:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA04789 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 May 1998 12:25:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from voicenet.com (mail12.voicenet.com [207.103.0.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA04775 for ; Mon, 4 May 1998 12:25:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from schwenk@voicenet.com) Received: (qmail 19920 invoked from network); 4 May 1998 19:25:39 -0000 Received: from omni1.voicenet.com (207.103.0.31) by mail12.voicenet.com with SMTP; 4 May 1998 19:25:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 27495 invoked by uid 14559); 4 May 1998 19:25:38 -0000 Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 15:25:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Schwenk X-Sender: schwenk@omni1 To: Lanny Baron cc: Greg Lehey , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing from Netscape In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 * > | Have you had your BEEF today? | > | http://www.tht.net/~beef | > | * > | Want a great operating system? | > | try FreeBSD, it's remarkable! | > * http://www.FreeBSD.org * > &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > - Peter Schwenk - schwenk@voicenet.com - - Running FreeBSD? You should be. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message