Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 13:02:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Richards <paul@ns0.netcraft.co.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: text to ps, thanks Message-ID: <199511241302.NAA09867@ns0.netcraft.co.uk>
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Thanks for all the replies, I knew about a2ps but unles I'm missing something it does too much pretty printing, I wanted something that makes a ps printer look exactly like a plain text printer. pslpr looks like it does what I want and I'm going to grab nenscript too and see if that's better. On a related note, our Apple laserwriter+ has a habit of not printing pages if they don't fill the printer buffer, they just sit in the printer, I get a timeout error and the job vanishes. Adding a showpage manually to the end of the postscript file seems to work. Is there a more "correct" way to flush jobs in postscript? Also, anyone feel like hacking lpr to read from the parallel port and report messages from the printer, I just use cat </dev/cua001 at the moment as a brute force method. -- Paul Richards, Netcraft Ltd. Internet: paul@netcraft.co.uk, http://www.netcraft.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1225 447500 (work)
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