Lee D. Rothstein on Fri, 09 May 2008 01:26:09 -0400 wrote: >I've gotten /usr/bin/lpr to work under Vista. So is the FAQ in error?
It is in error. There is a working lpr which is part or cygutils. See man pages. > My problem is finding a filter for Epson printers. For modern Epson printers you may use the IJS drive of ghostscript You have to; 1- Install ghostscript 2- Install gutenprint and foomatic there few problems. See: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-05/msg00566.html and http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-05/msg00575.html An easier way is to used the Windows drivers. You need a Windows program that could print. You may use "NOTEPAD /P" for text files and "Foxit Reader /p" for PDF files You can use ghostscript for transforming ps files into PDF files Foxit Reader is a faster than Acrobat Reader and has the convenient switch "/p" for printing. For example I use the following script (lprps) for printing postscript files: #!/bin/bash ## Para mandar un archivo PostScript a la impresora ## convirtiendolo en PDF y escribiendolo con Foxit FRDIR="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Foxit Software/Foxit Reader/Foxit Reader.exe" gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -sOutputFile=/tmp/~lprps.pdf $1 ; FDIR=`cygpath -wa /tmp/~lprps.pdf` cygstart "$FRDIR" /p $FDIR exit 0 The command $ lprps FILE.ps prints FILE.ps I hope that this can be useful R.M. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
