From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 1 10:54:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net (h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net [24.69.46.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A8DF37B424 for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 10:54:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@tenzo.com) Received: from h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net (localhost.gv.shawcable.net [127.0.0.1]) by h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f41HuwC96035; Tue, 1 May 2001 10:56:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@tenzo.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Michael O'Henly" Reply-To: michael@tenzo.com Organization: TENZO Design To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apsfilter vs. magicfilter Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 10:56:58 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <15086.17904.654310.339441@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <15086.17904.654310.339441@guru.mired.org> Cc: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01050110565802.95605@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 30 April 2001 22:13, Mike Meyer wrote: > Michael O'Henly types: [...] > apsfilter is built around using ghostscript as a front end to talk to > the printer. This causes extra work in cases where you don't need to > render things as postscript, and some problems if you're trying to > send postscript straight to a postscript printer. This is exactly what I was trying to do. I have a Postscript printer (HP LaserJet 4050) and although I can print to it using apsfilter, I get a lot of artifacts when the source comes from one of the Macs connected to the network. Clearly I don't need ghostscript at all. [...] > If you want automatic translation, I'd recommend magicfilter. If you > want to do things by hand, then all you really need is two printcap - > one that has a filter for text, and one that filters for postscript. Perfect, and a simple solution. Thanks again. M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message