Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 23:22:21 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@chain.iafrica.com> To: rknebel@mail.microserve.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: printing Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971005231730.3108O-100000@chain> In-Reply-To: <19971005131150.31271@my.domain>
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On Sun, 5 Oct 1997 rknebel@mail.microserve.net wrote:
>When I try to print postscript ie from xv or netscape I get about 6 pages
>0f ghostscript error messages.
I use this, which works quite well. In whatever printer application I want
to use, I specify nonpsprint. This sends the print job to printer lp
(the default).
A nonpsprint file (shell script)
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/nonpsconvert | lpr -Plp
nonpsconvert (also a shell script)
#!/bin/sh
read first_line
first_two_chars=`expr "$first_line" : '\(..\)'`
if [ "$first_two_chars" = "%!" ]; then
/usr/local/bin/ps2pcl
&& exit 0
else
/usr/local/bin/a2ps -ns -nH -d -1 -F9 -p -q | /usr/local/bin/ps2pcl
&& exit 0
fi
exit 2
ps2pcl (also a shell script)
#! /bin/sh
gs -q -sDEVICE=djet500c -r300x300 -sOutputFile=- -SPAPERSIZE=a4 -
This works quite nicely for me.
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