From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 30 6:21:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net (h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net [24.69.46.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A48B737B422 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 06:21:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@tenzo.com) Received: from h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net (localhost.gv.shawcable.net [127.0.0.1]) by h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f3UDOJC01696 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 06:24:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@tenzo.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Michael O'Henly" Reply-To: michael@tenzo.com Organization: TENZO Design To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: apsfilter vs. magicfilter Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 06:24:19 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <15085.2224.743762.480150@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <15085.2224.743762.480150@guru.mired.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01043006241901.00718@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have been using apsfilter, but not happily. It tries to do a lot more than I need and I find it difficult to isolate where problems are occuring when I have them. That's as much a comment about my inexperience with Unix printing as anything else -- but I think I might learn more easily using a simpler interface. Is magicfilter the alternative you'd recommend? Are there any other filters that I should be looking at? Thanks. M. On Sunday 29 April 2001 23:39, Mike Meyer wrote: > Thomas Widlundh types: > > Hi again, > > I'd like to thank all of You who contributed to this problem of mine. > > It's solved for now, and the printing with apsfilter works, and without > > staircase, and with our odd characters of swedish! Fantastic! > > But..... ;-) > > It takes a couple of minutes to print. I tested a small textfile of 50 > > bytes. This is perhaps normal with apsfilter, as it uses gs? > Apparently, yes. > If your printer can print DOS text files, magicfilter will do the job > that apsfilter does, but also recognizes text files and sends them > straight through to the printer. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message