Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 06:24:19 -0700 From: "Michael O'Henly" <michael@tenzo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: apsfilter vs. magicfilter Message-ID: <01043006241901.00718@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net> In-Reply-To: <15085.2224.743762.480150@guru.mired.org> References: <15085.2224.743762.480150@guru.mired.org>
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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 <tw@ettnet.se> 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
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