On Fri 14 Jul 2017 at 15:36:40 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 14 July 2017 13:09:00 Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > > > 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.
Default text size and font for text files is feature of cups-filters. > 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 versus lpr. One does more than the other? How different are they? A specific example would go a long way to substantiating your assertion. My view is that both commands do the same thing. > 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. Not everything is in a man page. http://localhost:631/help/options.html?TOPIC=Getting+Started&QUERY= -- Brian
