Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 16:38:28 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Better printing from the command-line Message-ID: <3B2B8B84.15765.5FC2FA@localhost>
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I've setup LPD printing to a remote HP Laserjet (using a DirectJet card) on a 4.3-STABLE box. And it works fine in all the basic ways. However I'd like to do some *rudimentary* jazzing up of the printouts, ie something as simple as setting the font to 12-pitch instead of 10-pitch so that certain manpages and text documents don't end up with truncated lines. Even though I'm using the "magicfilter" port which has a specific filter for the HP Laserjet, it doesn't appear to have any settings which can do something as simple as change the font pitch. I hear good things about the "APSfilter" port but that appears to require X, which I don't usually run. Is there any other kind of utility with a few basic built-in switches to do minor formatting on a Laserjet 4MPlus? This printer supports Postscript too but it would seem simpler to just use PCL commands. I hope I don't end up having to write my own scripts just to send commands to the printer.. Thanks, Phil -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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