On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:26:55AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I print out some of the HOWTOs for reading.
|
| say ...........
|
| $ zless /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Net-HOWTO.txt.gz | pr -o4 | lpr
|
| After a few pages the printing suddenly slips down the page and is
| then across the tear line of the continuous stationary that I use.
Really annoying. The librarians at my high school (before I
graduated, at least) were not computer literate at all. The line
printers there _always_ had the paper inserted wrong so that printed
pages never matched (and always bridged) the physical pages.
I think it may help if you used CUPS as the print spooler, and used a
back-end that converted to plain text. The CUPS 'lp' command takes
options such as "-o number-up=2" to get 2 pages per sheet of paper.
If I take an RFC and "zcat rfcNNNN.txt.gz | lp -o number-up=2" I get
really nice output. (although I have different printer hardware)
Anyways, what happens for you if you leave 'pr' out of the pipe? Does
it align any better?
-D
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