From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 6 04:32:29 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id EAA09816 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 04:32:29 -0800 Received: from nanolon.gun.de (nanolon.gun.de [192.109.159.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA09810 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 04:32:26 -0800 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by nanolon.gun.de (8.6.8.1/8.6.6) with UUCP id NAA03352; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 13:29:46 +0100 Received: (from andreas@localhost) by knobel.GUN.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA02791 Mon, 6 Feb 1995 13:19:34 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm Message-Id: <199502061219.NAA02791@knobel.GUN.de> Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 500 - /etc/printcap, tex, etc... To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 13:19:33 +0100 (MET) Cc: sledge@hammer.oche.de (Thomas Bueschgens) In-Reply-To: <199501221136.MAA00442@odin> from "Hinrich Eilts" at Jan 22, 95 12:36:54 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1919 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >Where can I find the information to install a deskjet 500 to my machine? > >I need a nice printcap entry, perhaps with some nice filters :_) and i > >wanbt to be able to print dvi files... > > /etc/printcap: (/dev/lp is a symlink to /dev/lpt0) > > lp|lp_ps|local line printer:\ > :lp=/dev/lp:sd=/var/spool/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\ > :sh:pw#80:pl#66:mx#0:\ > :if=/usr/local/lib/printer/dj-if: > > /usr/local/lib/printer/dj-if: Simply use apsfilter 49 gamma ... apsfilter comes with an INSTALL script, that makes the neccessary printcap entries for you as well as spool-dir entries with proper permissions. After that you have an intelligent printer filter with automatic file type detection. It can even print compressed or gzipped files, does file type detection after that ;-) Then it doesn't need any temporary files even if you use dvips as TeX print frontend. BTW: my co-author Thomas Bueschgens is very satisfied with TeX printing. If you have a proper TeX installation and suitable permission, then dvips generates automatically new fonts during printtime before printing the document. Using a user customizeable apsfilterrc file (a global and a privat one) allows you to to overwrite certain defaults, additionally to modify the TEXINPUTS variable, so that you can customize picture search paths ... I hope you know and enjoy dvips's feature of including Encapsulated PS picture files, made with xgrab ? ;-) Ok, enough ... try and buy ;-) (Aeehh, it's free ;-) I hope Thomas Bueschgens did an upload of the newest gamma release on the ftp server .... Hi Tom ?! Location: see below ... -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ - Support Unix - akl@wup.de - *** apsfilter - irgendwie clever *** ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:/pub/Linux/local/packs/APSfilter/aps-49...:-)