Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 11:47:39 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: paul@netcraft.co.uk Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: text to ps, thanks Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951124114354.1985A-100000@mocha.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199511241302.NAA09867@ns0.netcraft.co.uk>
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On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Paul Richards wrote: > 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 </dev/cua001 at > the moment as a brute force method. The reason I like a2ps is that, with the correct set of flags, it'll do just about anything you want, including the print you just asked for. I like the condensed (two ps pages to one sheet of paper) for some stuff, other's I want it neat (English profs don't understand the pretty print too well). I think the 'correct' way to flush the printer is to send an extra formfeed, at least that's what the doc I have on my postscript cartridge for the HP laser I have says. > > -- > Paul Richards, Netcraft Ltd. > Internet: paul@netcraft.co.uk, http://www.netcraft.co.uk > Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1225 447500 (work) > ============================================================================ Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu -- I run FreeBSD on n3lxx and Journey2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dilbert Zone is Dilbert's new WWW home! The area features never-before-seen original sketches of Dilbert, a photo tour of Scott Adams' studio, Dilbert Trivia and memorabilia, high school photos and much more!: <URL:http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/>;
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