Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 19:29:19 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing question (not really freebsd specific) Message-ID: <199901050129.TAA32438@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Stefano Riva <sriva@alice.it> of "Mon, 04 Jan 1999 17:20:36 %2B0100." <3.0.5.32.19990104172036.00a5b5c0@relay.alice.it>
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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
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