Re: enscript problem

2021-05-29 Thread Greg Marks
> I have the following problem with enscript: > I do "enscript --i $MARGIN. " > but whatever I put in MARGIN (10::: , 10.:::) I get the error message > enscript: malformed float dimension: google gave me nothing useful > what am I supposed to put? Something like

Re: enscript problem

2021-05-29 Thread C M Reinehr
lly can do nothing, but who as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.” ~ Fred Allen -- On 5/29/21 5:25 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi, I have the following problem with enscript: I do "enscript --i $MARGIN. " but whatever I put in MARGIN (10::: ,  10.:::) I g

enscript problem

2021-05-29 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
hi, I have the following problem with enscript: I do "enscript --i $MARGIN. " but whatever I put in MARGIN (10::: , 10.:::) I get the error message enscript: malformed float dimension: google gave me nothing useful what am I supposed to put? best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: Enscript and unicode, was Re: is a2ps broken?

2015-09-26 Thread David Wright
ot, hence his move to enscript. > ... > > He appears not to be interested in unicode ("Fooey on unicode, then.") > > Hi, David. > > Your comments were helpful; they told me what I needed to know -- that > a2ps is broken with respect to unicode. I did not see wha

Re: Enscript and unicode, was Re: is a2ps broken?

2015-09-25 Thread rlharris
On Fri, September 25, 2015 11:34 pm, David Wright wrote: > The OP thanked me for my first post which suggested what might cause > problems in a2ps, but AFAICT gave no feedback on whether it was any help. > Presumably not, hence his move to enscript. ... > He appears not to be intereste

Re: Enscript and unicode, was Re: is a2ps broken?

2015-09-25 Thread David Wright
to print at work quite a lot (on shared printers). By the time it became unusable for me (IIRC around the time of etch when Debian used TeX Live, and TeX Live was fully unicode aware) I was retired and not printing text files/emails. I didn't bother to look at enscript as it was known to suffe

Re: Enscript and unicode, was Re: is a2ps broken?

2015-09-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-09-16 14:01:40 -0500, David Wright wrote: > It doesn't crash, and the frames you have specified don't get bumped > into AFAICT, but a test line of unicode with: > > Pound £ Euro € Divide ÷ > > gives me: > > Pound £ Euro â\202¬ Divide ÷ > > There'a a good testpage to try at > http://ww

Enscript and unicode, was Re: is a2ps broken?

2015-09-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting rlhar...@oplink.net (rlhar...@oplink.net): > > On Thu, September 3, 2015 10:28 am, David Wright wrote: > > > > Personally, a2ps has been broken for years because it doesn't handle > > unicode. > > I found in the Debian archive the package "enscrip

Bug#411637: dpkg-reconfigure enscript should allow to set papersize

2007-02-20 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: enscript Version: 1.6.4-11 Severity: wishlist Tags: l10n enscript currently defaults to A4 size paper regardless of locale. It would be nice if there were a way (possibly via "dpkg-reconfigure") to set it to whatever the local standard is ("Letter" in the US, fo

Re: Enscript overlap

2004-08-21 Thread hank
m running unstable and trying to use enscript to print some text > files. > > enscript works fine, but any variant of 2Up or multi-column > output produces overlaps between the pages or columns; almost like a > margin or column definition setting isn't working. Examples bei

Enscript overlap

2004-08-21 Thread hank
This could just be stupid user error, but I figure I'll ask ... I'm running unstable and trying to use enscript to print some text files. enscript works fine, but any variant of 2Up or multi-column output produces overlaps between the pages or columns; almost like a margin or column

Re: enscript margins

2004-01-15 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Qua, 2004-01-14 Ãs 23:10, Matt Price escreveu: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:54:13PM -0200, Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corcete Dutra > wrote: > > > > Haven't you something set to A4, like in CUPS, locales or something the > > like? > > > that was my first thought -- I checked in CUPS to make

Re: enscript margins

2004-01-14 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
> One little error that puzzles me -- enscript seems to think my 8.5x11 > (US Letter) pages are longer than they really are. When formatting > text it prints just past the bottom edge of the page. I'm able to > correct this with the --margins= switch, but I wonder if this

enscript margins

2004-01-14 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, just recently discovered enscript, which I'm loving as a pretty-printing tool (though if folks have suggestions for other tools, I'm happy to hear them). One little error that puzzles me -- enscript seems to think my 8.5x11 (US Letter) pages are longer than they really

Re: CUPS and enscript

2002-02-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
ly like this. Then the server everything was channeled through had the /var partition go physically bad... We're putting it on a more robust box this time and switching from lpd to CUPS, but the basic layout is staying the same. CUPS just always works so well with the JetDirects that the po

Re: CUPS and enscript

2002-02-05 Thread dman
g pretty well aside from one detail: lpd has its if= in | > | printcap, which provides an easy hook for throwing enscript filters | > | into the printing process. I haven't been able to find an equivalent | > | hook in CUPS. | > | > I'm not sure if this is the sort of thin

Re: CUPS and enscript

2002-02-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
cap, which provides an easy hook for throwing enscript filters > | into the printing process. I haven't been able to find an equivalent > | hook in CUPS. > > I'm not sure if this is the sort of thing you're looking for or not, > but for one particular queue I have

Re: CUPS and enscript

2002-02-05 Thread dman
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:21:44PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: | I'm in the process of migrating several systems from lpd to CUPS and | it's going pretty well aside from one detail: lpd has its if= in | printcap, which provides an easy hook for throwing enscript filters | into th

CUPS and enscript

2002-02-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
I'm in the process of migrating several systems from lpd to CUPS and it's going pretty well aside from one detail: lpd has its if= in printcap, which provides an easy hook for throwing enscript filters into the printing process. I haven't been able to find an equivalent hook in C

RE: lpr(ng) not filtering through enscript for remote printer

2001-01-26 Thread Lewis, James M.
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:15:55PM -0500, Lewis, James M. wrote: > > > If you make a small tst.c and: > > > $ cat tst.c|/etc/magicfilter/ljet4m-filter >~/me.ps > > > > lp|hplj4l|HP Laserjet 4L:\ > > > > :lp=lp:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l:rm=remoteprinter.lincrud:rp=hp:lpr_bounce: > > > \ > > >

RE: lpr(ng) not filtering through enscript for remote printer

2001-01-25 Thread Lewis, James M.
> Hi, > > Normally, with magicfilter installed, printing out a .c file will give > a two collumned small font sized landscape printout, because it uses > enscript. > > If you make a small tst.c and: > $ cat tst.c|/etc/magicfilter/ljet4m-filter >~/me.ps > $ gv me

lpr(ng) not filtering through enscript for remote printer

2001-01-24 Thread Mark Mackenzie
Hi, Normally, with magicfilter installed, printing out a .c file will give a two collumned small font sized landscape printout, because it uses enscript. If you make a small tst.c and: $ cat tst.c|/etc/magicfilter/ljet4m-filter >~/me.ps $ gv me.ps you will see what I mean (and this wo

Re: enscript

1999-05-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 01:13:20 +, angus claydon wrote: > Could anyone tell me where enscript queues print jobs > if its not somewhere in /var/spool; ? It uses lpr, which queues in /var/spool/lpd/ . > By testing enscripting a gif file to the printer my deskjet is >

enscript

1999-05-17 Thread angus claydon
Could anyone tell me where enscript queues print jobs if its not somewhere in /var/spool; ? By testing enscripting a gif file to the printer my deskjet is insisting on trying to print 300 garbage pages many thanks in advance angus claydon

enscript problem

1998-10-23 Thread ANDREW
Hi Saisanthosh There are two approaches that you can try to sort out your problem. 1) purge the package and reinstall it. 2) copy the .deb file to a temporary directory and unpack it. (I think this is done with dpkg-deb, but I don't have access to my Debian system at the moment so I can't check t

Re: enscript problem

1998-10-21 Thread Frank Barknecht
Saisanthosh B hat gesagt: // Saisanthosh B wrote: > By mistake, I did a rm /etc/enscript.cfg, and so I decided to > re-install enscript package. > > Even after re-installing enscript, I am not able to find > /etc/enscript.cfg. > Any ideas / suggestions on what I should d

enscript problem

1998-10-21 Thread Saisanthosh B
By mistake, I did a rm /etc/enscript.cfg, and so I decided to re-install enscript package. [/cdrom/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/text] # dpkg -i enscript_1.5.0-8.deb Selecting previously deselected package enscript. (Reading database ... 55275 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing

enscript package bug+fix

1997-04-11 Thread Pete Harlan
Hi, In enscript_1.4.0-2, the file /usr/lib/enscript/simple.hdr has the line %Format: fmodstr$D{%a %b %2d %T %Y} This produces a date in the header where the day is always "d". If you remove the '2' before the 'd' then you'll get the correct