Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:09:15 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing (was: i probably drew daemon's rage on myself) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911101836030.57361-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911110028550.16764-100000@sun33>
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For those of you have Laserjets and Deskjets (and anything else that understands Hewlett Packard's Printer Control Language), there's a port in /usr/ports/print call pclprint. This is a small matter involving a few awk scripts; the documentation ends up in /usr/local/share/pclprint. It requires that lpd be running, but other than that it should be possible to print a file with qp <filename> and manpages with man <page> | col -b | qp man shells | col -b | qp is good for a test (one-pager). lptest | qp should also work. The scripts understand PCL printer codes placed directly in files and it's possible to use different fonts and have vertical and horizontal spacing managed by the scripts. Pagination and even footnotes are possible, although using these features can be a bit tricky. Annelise On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > > > On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 10 November 1999 at 21:08:48 +0100, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > > > Your will probably laugh > > > > No, I'm not laughing. > > > > > but i still have no luck with my printer > > > > It's not a question of luck. It's a question of following > > instructions. > I know I know surely ,purists are fine beings but sometimes > i must divert myself from fbsd documentation and attend > some courses in collesge :)) > > > > > After typing in incantaion provided by Mr Lehey I got the same > > > pattern as before*reverse staicase effect or what i would calll > > > as such i got staircase on left margin of a4 paper after printing > > > just about 1 or 2 letters.lptest|lpr works fine. > > > > Ah, I almost missed this last sentence. > > The point is everything is: i get same output even using your > suggestions > > > Meanwhile I belive intervention will help.But maybe not everything > > > is lost. So I expect with excitement new advices. By chirurgical > > > > The English word is "surgical" > > Sure have forgotten neither German nor English is/are my native > Language so it is sometimes somehow hard to switch between > Execuse me. > > > intervention I mean some reinstalling/recompiling/reconfiguring.I > > > guess your will need some information from me but I do not know what > > > so just ask. > > > > Next question: IIRChuh? what should it be IIRC? (since you removed the > discussion), you're > > trying to use apsfilter. Have you read the documentation in > > /usr/local/share/doc/apsfilter? Have you acted on the suggestions in > > /usr/local/share/doc/apsfilter/TROUBLESHOOTING? What did Andreas say? > > Andreas have so far siad nothing :) i had not sent mail to him. > I will mail him tomorrow. > As your might guess from the fact that I know what Andreas do your mean > I have read some papers related to apsfilter already :) > > > Greg > Regards, > Ariel Burbiackij > THANK your for your help. > > -- > > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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