From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 22 18:54:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD22037B401 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 18:54:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DD5143F85 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 18:54:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zettel@acm.org) Received: from 169.254.174.3 (bgp966828bgs.derbrn01.mi.comcast.net[68.41.109.203](untrusted sender)) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with SMTP id <2003072301542801400cq577e>; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 01:54:28 +0000 From: Leonard Zettel Organization: LenZ Computer Consulting To: "Vlad D. Markov" Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 01:54:48 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <200307220102.34342.zettel@acm.org> <20030722193203.393d18ab.markov@monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <20030722193203.393d18ab.markov@monmouth.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307230154.48169.zettel@acm.org> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wysisyg printing of web pages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 01:54:30 -0000 On Tuesday 22 July 2003 23:32, Vlad D. Markov wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 01:02:34 +0000 > > Leonard Zettel wrote: > > I have a quite vanilla installation of 5.1 running. > > Plaintext printing to my laserjet 1100 is working pretty well. > > I have KDE set up and am impressed with the performance > > of the Konqueror web browser. > > BUT when I click the Konqueror print button what comes out > > is an almost unending bunch of ACII formatting specifications. > > > > Obviously I have to do more to my system configuration > > and/or install a package or two. > > Can anybody point me to the information I need? > > -LenZ- > > It is sending postscript commands to the printer. You will need a > ghostscript printfilter for your printer. I like apsfilter, others like > cups, others handcraft their own. After the usual heartburn, I managed to adapt /usr/share/examples/printing/ifp to do the job satisfactorily, with -sDEVICE=ljet4d. Thanks to all who gave me the clues I needed. -LenZ-