From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 4 17:51:12 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA10199 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 17:51:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA10074 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 17:51:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt3-72.HiWAAY.net [208.147.146.72]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA11459; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 19:50:40 -0600 (CST) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA32438; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 19:29:19 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199901050129.TAA32438@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Thomas David Rivers , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Printing question (not really freebsd specific) In-reply-to: Message from Stefano Riva of "Mon, 04 Jan 1999 17:20:36 +0100." <3.0.5.32.19990104172036.00a5b5c0@relay.alice.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 19:29:19 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stefano Riva writes: > At 10.48 04/01/99 -0500, you wrote: > >I have some output (from a mainframe) which is 132 columns > >wide (just plain text.) > (...) > >wide text output - produce a postscript file; which I could > >then run through ghostscript to print on my HP Deskjet? > > Try a2ps. IMHO /usr/ports/print/a2ps43-letter/ is the way to go. Old version 4.3 is much smaller and simpler than the latest and greatest do-all. You probably want to print your 132 columns sideways in landscape mode. By default a2ps4.3 prints a frame around your text, headers, footers, page numbers, time stamps, etc. Possibly more than you might wish. The latest a2ps does similar but when it first came out I was turned off by its size (over 1.5 MB vs 40k) and didn't like its similar but different format on the printed page. Ghostscript is a good idea to install too. Lets you look at the output before chopping down trees. With that said, you probably want to try both versions of a2ps also. Same price. Its only your time... :-) -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message