From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 00:04:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA22466 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 00:04:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apollo.is.co.za (apollo.is.co.za [196.4.160.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA22459 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 00:04:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from admin.is.co.za (admin.is.co.za [196.23.0.9]) by apollo.is.co.za (8.7.5/8.7.5/IShub#2) with ESMTP id JAA10070; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 09:03:57 +0200 (GMT) Received: (from robin@localhost) by admin.is.co.za (8.7.5/8.7.5/ISsubsidiary#1) id JAA18800; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 09:03:54 +0200 (GMT) From: Robin Lunn Message-Id: <199607250703.JAA18800@admin.is.co.za> Subject: Re: Printing in Netscape To: justin@structured.net (Justin Ashworth) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 09:03:53 +0200 (GMT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <31F6AF55.2781E494@structured.net> from "Justin Ashworth" at Jul 24, 96 11:18:45 pm X-Organisation: The Internet Solution (Pty) Ltd. X-Phone: +27.11.4475566 X-Fax: +27.11.4475567 Reply-To: robin@is.co.za X-URL: http://www.is.co.za/robin X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Justin Ashworth wrote: > How would I go about printing to my non-postscript printer from > Netscape? When I print now, I get postscript code. > > Any help will be greatly appreciated! Use ghostscript as a filter for your printer through the print daemon (lpd). Ghostscript is available as a package on ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages-2.1/printing/ghostscript-3.51.tgz Have a look at the printcap(5) man page paying special attention to the "of" option when describing the printer. That is the option you will need to use to tell the printing system that ghostscript should process the file. -- _ __ | Only my ideas here unless I say otherwise... ' ) ) / | (BeamJack@IRC) /--' ____/___o __ | "Nondum amabam, et amare amabam... quaerebam / \_(_) /_) (__/) )_ | quid amarem, amans amare." - St Augustine Say NO! To SA Telco Internet Monopoly http://www.ispa.org.za/