From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 28 6:54: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 019B414BE9 for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 06:54:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA20750; Fri, 28 May 1999 09:14:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 09:14:35 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Thomas Widlundh Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" , andreas@klemm.gtn.com Subject: Re: aspfilter In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 28 May 1999, Thomas Widlundh wrote: > Hi again, > I ain't easy this you know... > I'm configging my printer, and I'm in the work of installing aspfilter. > Well...I thought I had to install aspfilter, and perhaps some dependance. > Suprise, Surprise. Soon I've installed almost everything there is! ;-) > Is this really necessary? I just want to be able to print without the > staircasing and perhaps som graphics through ps and netscape. > Is it impossible to do that without lots of other programs? > Doesn't aspfilter work at all without all these proggs? > Is there an easier way to print from netscape and without staircasing? > I'm practically out of diskspace for /usr. Perhaps I can move some to my first > disk and make links? hmmm, no garantee that it'll work, but you may be able to try an older version of apsfilter from the ports or this URL: http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas/download/ apsfilter has always required a LOT of packages, trust me, it's just really cool to be able to: lpr mygif.gif and have it print for you :) although, it would be nice to have a minimal install option/version for only doing postscript printing for those of us with limited disk or CPU. any chance of that Andreas? :) thanks, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message