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	Next time you print an ASCII file try:
a2ps -1 -a -p -l70 -ns -nu -nL -nH -q <file_name>
	works on our printer.. however, I dont' recall I ever tried to
print anything that needed line wrap.

-- Yan

On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Patrick Gardella wrote:

>Greetings once again!
>
>I need some help on postscript.  I am trying to translate ascii into postscript
>so that it wraps the line correctly.  I've used a2ps and GNU enscript, as well
>as textfmt.  None of them do it right.  
>
>The postscript always comes out as full justified text.  The right edge gets
>wrapped wherever the margin is, not at word boundaries.  
>
>Is there some application that I can find to wrap the words to the next line
>instead of splitting them in the middle of a word? 
>
>I'll write one myself if needed, but why recreate the wheel?
>
>(It would vary based on the font used, of course, so it's not so simple as
>wrapping at 80 characters or the nearest word break.  I'd need to compute the
>amount of space the characters would use.)
>
>Thanks,
>
>Patrick
>
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