From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 17:02:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA17028 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 17:02:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nexgen.n4hhe.ampr.org (max12-88.HiWAAY.net [206.104.16.88]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA17019 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 17:02:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by nexgen.n4hhe.ampr.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA01300; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 19:01:36 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.5-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 18:48:10 -0500 (CDT) Organization: Amateur Radio N4HHE, Madison, AL. From: David Kelly To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Text->Postscript filter Cc: Brandon Gillespie Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 23:07:27 Nadav Eiron wrote: >> > >On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Brandon Gillespie wrote: > >> In the LPD docs it refers to a text->postscript filter in the ports that >> does not exist. Any suggestions on what program to use for this? All I >> want is something to convert ascii text to postscript so it will print. I >> know of a program called 'psf' but I am at loss as to where it is. > >There is something called a2ps in the ports/packages collection. I like >it alot. It can do landscape/portrait, 2-up, etc. Hmmm, Brandon saw the "lprps" package mentioned in the Handbook? I too went looking for it a couple of weeks ago. Finally found it with Alta Vista. Was disappointed (only a little) with the text to PS conversion in lprps but happy with the other things like page reordering and an exact example of /etc/printcap. So I used the structure outlined in lprps but put a2ps in as the actual ascii-to-postscript converter. Then my users complained, "it doesn't look like the output we get from the other printer" (an original HP LaserJet, one font, Courier 12). Arrrgh. Found I could teach a2ps to do 80 column 66 line pages, and still leave a margin for punching 3-ring binder holes. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@tomcat1.tbe.com (wk), dkelly@hiwaay.net (hm) ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.