Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 10:16:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: dlr <dlr@asylum.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Print question Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970525100758.27271A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <19970525100212.01743@asylum.asylum.org>
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On Sun, 25 May 1997, dlr wrote:
> I'm running freebsd 2.1 on a 486-66 and using a Star LS-5 with HP laserjet
> 2P emulation. I've read the freebsd handbook on printing and have tried
> multiple filters. Here is the problem:
>
> I have gotten ghostscript to work, and the first 2 or so pages come out
> ok, then i will get one line overwritten which is garbage, then more
> normal printing, then another line of overwritten garbage. The filters
> seems to work ok, and i'm beginning to wonder if this is a problem with
> the printer itself...i.e. the character set or something.
>
> I've had the same thing happen printing out ascii stuff also (long
> email files).
>
> If anyone has a clue about this i'd be interested. I've been thru about 2
> reams of paper trying to figure this out and am just about ready to bail
> and buy a postscript printer.
>
> I posted to a ghostscript email list and didn't get one response, so i
> thought i'd try here, even though i know this probably isn't a freebsd
> problem.
>
> dave racette
I think you need not only ghostscript but apsfilter as well (that's a
port).
However there's an alternative that I use, an awk script as follows:
BEGIN {
print("E&k3G(s0p12v0s0b3T&a06L") # courier 12 point
}
{print}
END {
print("E")
}
I call this (it's named qp.awk) from a shell script, qp, that looks
like this:
#!/bin/sh
awk -f ~/bin/qp.awk $1 | lpr
so I just type qp <filename> to print. qp.awk resets the printer,
tells the printer to reinterpret unix line endings, selects a
typeface, and sets a left margin. At the end, it resets the printer.
The ^[ in the above are decimal 027's created, in vi, with
Ctrl-v<esc>.
You can also put these strings directly into the document.
qp.awk above (and qp) and in ~/bin and are executable.
Annelise
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