Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 18:48:10 -0500 (CDT) From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@glacier.cold.org> Subject: Re: Text->Postscript filter Message-ID: <XFMail.961022190135.dkelly@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961022180655.21430C-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il>
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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.
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