Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:27:24 -0800 (PST) From: Jan Koum <jkb@best.com> To: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ASCII to PS Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980112192549.21867F-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980112170238.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
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Next time you print an ASCII file try: a2ps -1 -a -p -l70 -ns -nu -nL -nH -q <file_name> works on our printer.. however, I dont' recall I ever tried to print anything that needed line wrap. -- Yan On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Patrick Gardella wrote: >Greetings once again! > >I need some help on postscript. I am trying to translate ascii into postscript >so that it wraps the line correctly. I've used a2ps and GNU enscript, as well >as textfmt. None of them do it right. > >The postscript always comes out as full justified text. The right edge gets >wrapped wherever the margin is, not at word boundaries. > >Is there some application that I can find to wrap the words to the next line >instead of splitting them in the middle of a word? > >I'll write one myself if needed, but why recreate the wheel? > >(It would vary based on the font used, of course, so it's not so simple as >wrapping at 80 characters or the nearest word break. I'd need to compute the >amount of space the characters would use.) > >Thanks, > >Patrick > > >+-------------------------------------------------------------------+ >|Patrick S. Gardella Director of Web Development | >| The Creative Group 1-800-804-0783 606-858-9054 (fax) | >|-------------------------------------------------------------------| >| http://www.cre8tivegroup.com | >|-------------------------------------------------------------------| >| Patrick@cre8tivegroup.com PGP Key ID 0xEE2D47A9 | >+-------------------------------------------------------------------+ >
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