Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 21:55:39 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> To: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Brother HL-L2340D printer and lpd? Message-ID: <20200506145539.GC83950@admin.sibptus.ru> In-Reply-To: <20200506113009.GD77496@admin.sibptus.ru> References: <20200505185510.00b622e3.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200505180101.GA35751@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200505202242.c16f07feef5674fc7b6e6fe9@sohara.org> <20200506015935.GA56526@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200506071659.8730d1d68f9d47e4407790f3@sohara.org> <20200506102943.6f68ea4859f8de9661e25895@sohara.org> <20200506103620.f23dcb43f26697795686ee18@sohara.org> <20200506103026.GA74014@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200506120655.20c05800cda62c3887c0f4f9@sohara.org> <20200506113009.GD77496@admin.sibptus.ru>
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Victor Sudakov wrote:
> > It looks like CUPS works by using an internal texttopdf converter
> > and feeding to to pdftops.
> >=20
> > Installing cups-filters (quite a small package) makes this work
> >=20
> > cupsfilter Documents/UTF-8-demo.txt > t.ps
> >=20
> > The resultant file views and prints fine.
>=20
> Dear Steve,=20
>=20
> You are a wizard! cupsfilter really works.
> "cupsfilter test.txt | lpr -P ps" printed a fine Cyrillic page for me.
>=20
> It seems that cupsfilter requires CUPS to be installed but it does not
> have to be running. I can live with that. I can probably use cupsfilter
> as a filter in printcap combining it with gs, to emulate a line printer.
>=20
So, my final working printcap looks this:
lp|Brother HL-L2340D series line printer:\
:sh:\
:lp=3D9100@192.168.1.74:\
:if=3D/usr/local/etc/txt2pcl.sh:\
:sd=3D/var/spool/output/lpd1:lf=3D/var/log/lpd-errs:
ps|Brother HL-L2340D series PostScript:\
:sh:\
:lp=3D9100@192.168.1.74:\
:if=3D/usr/local/etc/ps2pcl.sh:\
:sd=3D/var/spool/output/lpd2:lf=3D/var/log/lpd-errs:
The txt2pcl.sh filter looks this:
#!/bin/sh
exec 2> /dev/null
/usr/local/sbin/cupsfilter -i text/plain - |\
/usr/local/bin/gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dPARANOIDSAFER -dSAFER \
-sDEVICE=3Dhl1250 -sPAPERSIZE=3Da4 -r600x600 \
-sOutputFile=3D- - && exit 0
Thanks again Polytropon, Steve and all who helped.
--=20
Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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