On Friday 14 July 2017 13:09:00 Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > On 14-07-2017, at 17h 22'40", Brian wrote about "Re: jesse->stretch > for DYMO label printer" > > > On Fri 14 Jul 2017 at 16:26:30 +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > > > After jesse -> stretch upgrade my DYMO label printer is using a > > > different font. Before I could fit 6 lines on a label, each line > > > with 18 characters. > > > > Knowing the printer model is always useful. > > Thank you, Brian. It is DYMO LabelWriter 450. lsusb is listing it as > "Bus 007 Device 006: ID 0922:0020 Dymo-CoStar Corp. LabelWriter 450". > > But this is not relevant for my question: > > > Anyone knows where I can locate the config file for the fonts that > > > are used by the label printer? > > > > Does a printer dialog in an application show any way of altering > > fonts? > > What is "a printer dialog"? What application? I have an alias "label" > that does "lpr -P label -o orientation-requested=5", and I print like > this: > This is a case I believe, of the default text size, where-ever its set, and which I do not know.
But what I would try is editing your alias to read: lpr -P label -o orientation-requested=5 -o cpi=10 See the manpage for lpr for the nitty-gritty, but you should be able to adjust it for the result you need. I believe also that you can control the font used, in which case I'd install "hack" which is a mono-spaced font and will not only look good, but will be a consistent character width. And adjust the 10 up and down until it fits. For multiline output, there used to be a way to adjust the default 6 lines per inch, allowing the text to be compressed vertically. However for that fine a vertical control, you might have to use lp instead of lpr. lp has the -o lpi=option, but I do not see either cpi or lpi listed as options in the current (for wheezy) lpr man page. > # vi label > # label label > # rm label > > > > I reinstalled the printer, reinstall the printer-driver-dymo dpkg. > > > I am not sure how to fix this. > > > > > > I use cups and the drivers that comes with it in Debian. > > > > > > I use Debian since hamm and potato. > > > > The printng system is not responsible for changing font size (except > > when the input file is text). Surely, the application producing the > > labels is where to look? > > It is not the font size. It is a different font al together. Size is > comparable. But now the lines are shifted lower, so only 5.5 lines > will fit with some space above and 16.25 characters will print out > (from 20 characters, the first 3.25 and the last half characters are > swallowed). Before it was 18 out of 18 were printed (also 18 out of > 20, etc.). > > It is a label printer, so it is only text. What else can I do with it? > Care to elaborate about the application you speak of? What does it do? > It prints images on the label? Or pdf? I do not understand your > answer. Sorry, Brian. > > "man lpr" doesn't have any option for fonts. > > Ionel Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
