From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 11 06:21:05 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id GAA18630 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 06:21:05 -0800 Received: from picspc01.pics.com (picspc01.pics.com [192.135.189.20]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA18624 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 06:21:03 -0800 Received: (from tpr@localhost) by picspc01.pics.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id JAA16307; Sat, 11 Feb 1995 09:21:12 -0500 From: Terry Rossi Message-Id: <199502111421.JAA16307@picspc01.pics.com> Subject: Re: lpr and ps files To: eblood@cs.unr.edu (Eric V Blood) Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1995 09:21:08 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199502102204.OAA24016@hunter.cs.unr.edu> from "Eric V Blood" at Feb 10, 95 02:04:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2014 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Can anyone provide an example of how they interface ghostscript > to lpr to automatically print postscript files? Thanks. > Eric, I suggest the aps-filter programs, here is an excerpt from the announce file. WHAT IS APSFILTER ================= APSFILTER is a lineprinter input filter for systems with a BSD alike printing mechanism (lpd, /etc/printcap), that saves users a lot of work when printing different file types no matter if compressed or not !!! Additionally it enables non Postscript printers, that are supported by the free postscript emulator - under the terms of the GPL - "ghostscript" (gs), to print postscript files automatically ! With the new apsfilter Version 3.0 it's now possible to print *compacted* documents directly without unpacking !!! The wanted packers/unpackers have to be already installed on your system. o Supported file types: Postscript TeX DVI Ascii Data (PCL,...) GIFF TIFF Sun Rasterfiles FIG PNM (pbmplus) ========================================================== These are the sites, where apsfilter versions can be found ========================================================== (1) This ftp server will also contain beta releases if we are currently on the way to a new release ftp server: ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de directory : pub/Linux/local/packages/APS (2) Here we'll put only final releases ftp server : ftp.Germany.EU.net directory : pub/os/Linux/Local.EUnet/People/akl directory : pub/os/Linux/Incoming.EUnet ftp the newest release from there. The current naming scheme for apsfilter releases is: aps-Release.tgz -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ - Support Unix - akl@wup.de - -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Terry Rossi tpr@pics.com Data: 609/753-2540 Sysop, Pics OnLine BBS telnet: bbs.pics.com 609/767-0216 Voice/Fax WWW: http://www.pics.com