Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 22:07:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: Kent Boortz <kent@erlang.ericsson.se>, yu132719@yorku.ca, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printer support Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970712220427.6418E-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970712173039.7490A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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Some backup data on this, I've wrangled with nearly the same things. :) > apsfilter (a really good program) makes a printer emulate PostScript, > i.e., you can print a postscript (.ps) file to it. My impression is > that in this process it does not utilize the built-in fonts of the > (HP Laserjet) printer, but is printing in a sort of "graphics" mode. apsfilter is a set of lpr filters that seamlessly integrate lpr and ghostscript. It automatically figures out the file type and then calls the proper scripts and flags to get it to come out properly. > > I would spend some more $$ to get a PostScript model + some extra > > memory to enable resolution enhancement. But setting this up, > > especially enabling the resolution enhancement, isn't a trivial > > task (but not that hard, I have done it). HP REt and other settings are stored in the printer I thought, you just need to either JetAdmin the printer or if you have a JetDirect card, telnet into the printer and change the setting there. > -- learn troff Not hard to do, actually; just look at the source for a few man pages and you get the idea. > -- learn (and install) TeX/LaTeX Yuck. :) > -- install (if you have lots of space) the staroffice port, > which (I think) produces postscript (and runs under X-Windows) (MS > Office workalike, more or less) That is correct. StarOffice actually works pretty nicely. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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