Re: Re: Re: Hideous font when printing text file

2009-05-01 Thread Henk Koster
Yup, that looks like the problem. I'll be using a2ps for now. Thanks. -- Henk Koster "Behavioral axioms are right, but agents make mistakes." Attributed to L.J. Savage -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: Re: Hideous font when printing text file

2009-04-29 Thread Dave Thayer
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:18:37AM +0200, Henk Koster wrote: > Thanks for your assistance. I use lp or lpr for printing text files (as > stated in the OP), e.g. > > $ ls |lp > > to print a directory listing to the default printer (I have only one > printer). That lp is rea

Re: Hideous font when printing text file

2009-04-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Henk Koster wrote: Thanks for your assistance. I use lp or lpr for printing text files (as stated in the OP), e.g. $ ls |lp to print a directory listing to the default printer (I have only one printer). That lp is really /usr/bin/lp. I've made no changes to the default Debian printing

Re: Re: Hideous font when printing text file

2009-04-28 Thread Henk Koster
Thanks for your assistance. I use lp or lpr for printing text files (as stated in the OP), e.g. $ ls |lp to print a directory listing to the default printer (I have only one printer). That lp is really /usr/bin/lp. I've made no changes to the default Debian printing setup. There

Re: Hideous font when printing text file

2009-04-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,24.Apr.09, 01:29:42, Henk Koster wrote: > Running mixed testing/Sid, and after a recent upgrade any text file > (like a directory listing) gets printed on my CUPS printer with a > hideously stretched and enlarged (Courier) font, far removed from the > default 10 chars/inch and 6 lines/

Hideous font when printing text file

2009-04-24 Thread Henk Koster
Running mixed testing/Sid, and after a recent upgrade any text file (like a directory listing) gets printed on my CUPS printer with a hideously stretched and enlarged (Courier) font, far removed from the default 10 chars/inch and 6 lines/inch. Other file types, like PDF-files produced with pdfl

Re: Printing text files

2002-12-03 Thread Gary Turner
Richard Hector wrote: >Hi all, > >This I think should be simple ... > >I have an old dot matrix printer - ugly, slow, but cheap and handles >lineflow. > >Is there some good way to get the best of both worlds? I want my pages >neatly broken at the perforations, and I'd rather the system kept the >

Printing text files

2002-12-02 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, This I think should be simple ... I have an old dot matrix printer - ugly, slow, but cheap and handles lineflow. When I set it up with CUPS, I used the Epson driver, but that seems to insist on using Postscript - converts my text file to Postscript and then renders it using Ghostscript (

Re: Printing text

2001-05-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting Stephen E. Hargrove ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'm still chasing my text problem. I've installed magicfilter, and it > prints postscript files just fine. However, text files suffer from the > dreaded stair-step problem. Following is my printcap file. Any > suggestions would be most appreci

Printing text

2001-05-02 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm still chasing my text problem. I've installed magicfilter, and it prints postscript files just fine. However, text files suffer from the dreaded stair-step problem. Following is my printcap file. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. # Th

Re: printing text

2001-04-28 Thread Andre Berger
* Stephen E. Hargrove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-28 00:45 +0200: > i can print from wordperfect (the MS version running under win4lin and the > linux version), but i can't print text documents from the command line, > pine, etc. Here's my /etc/printcap: [...] Maybe the a2ps package is for you?

Re: printing text

2001-04-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: printing text Date: Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 03:29:05PM -0500 In reply to:Stephen E. Hargrove Quoting Stephen E. Hargrove([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > i can print from wordperfect (the MS version running under win

printing text

2001-04-27 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i can print from wordperfect (the MS version running under win4lin and the linux version), but i can't print text documents from the command line, pine, etc. Here's my /etc/printcap: lp:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :mx#0:\ :sh:\

Printing - text works, ps doesn't

1997-08-27 Thread Paul Miller
I'm trying to print postscript files over samba.. When I print from StarOffice 3.1 I get this error message in the print error file: /usr/sbin/dj550c-filter: /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r300 - sDEVICE=cdj550 -sOutputFile=- - failed It works perfectly if I type 'lpr -Plp filename' ... I've