Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 10:31:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: previewer Message-ID: <199710221731.KAA08392@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <19971022160426.55428@lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Oct 22, 97 04:04:26 pm"
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According to Greg Lehey: [[ ... ]] > > Yes, I understood that. But I was assuming you weren't cutting them > out and gluing them on to the paper. You didn't (and still don't say) > what tools you were using. > Very simple tools: vi and enscript-- % vi addr (to create the addresses: addressee and return) % enscript -B -r -fTimes-Bold24 addr (to my DeskJet) > > [[ ... ]] > > OK, but I still don't understand what you're using. a2ps takes ASCII > input, which doesn't have various font sizes. Both enscript and a2ps take ASCII and a typeface spec. I used xlsfonts to find the largest times-bold font, a 24point. > > > This afternoon, Julian Elischer pointed out > > that ghostscript was the solution, but after > > some testing I realized that ghostview might > > be the better viewer. ghostview allows -landscape > > views. > > Ghostview is definitely preferable, though it's really a front end to > ghostscript. > So I understand. > > > > 'Nuff?? > > Not really. I still don't understand what you're doing. ghostview is > a (pre)viewer, so you don't need any more. Or are you saying you want > to create a view at a certain point in a script? Essentially. Having read the man pages on enscript, ghostscript, and ghostview, I understand what steps are necessary on the cmd line: 1. vi file 2. enscript [options] file 3. gv [options] file I would have had to iterate as many times as I printed out my test sheets and it probably wouldn't have been any faster. But it would have saved some ink and paper. Another use for any printer-previewer would be to understand exactly how envelopes would look. Or anything intended for faxing before transmitting. > > Sorry, I'm trying to help, but I still don't understand what you're > trying to do. > Thanks for your time. I hope I've made things clearer. With as many tools as we've got, most or all of this print-previewing is probably do-able with ghostview. It's just not that evident. gary
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