From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 24 05:03:26 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id FAA16384 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 05:03:26 -0800 Received: from ns0.netcraft.co.uk (ns0.netcraft.co.uk [194.72.238.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA16379 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 05:03:14 -0800 Received: (from paul@localhost) by ns0.netcraft.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA09867 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 13:02:25 GMT From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199511241302.NAA09867@ns0.netcraft.co.uk> Subject: text to ps, thanks To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 13:02:25 +0000 (GMT) Reply-to: paul@netcraft.co.uk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 941 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Thanks for all the replies, I knew about a2ps but unles I'm missing something it does too much pretty printing, I wanted something that makes a ps printer look exactly like a plain text printer. pslpr looks like it does what I want and I'm going to grab nenscript too and see if that's better. On a related note, our Apple laserwriter+ has a habit of not printing pages if they don't fill the printer buffer, they just sit in the printer, I get a timeout error and the job vanishes. Adding a showpage manually to the end of the postscript file seems to work. Is there a more "correct" way to flush jobs in postscript? Also, anyone feel like hacking lpr to read from the parallel port and report messages from the printer, I just use cat