Carlos Carvalho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: using apsfilter. It's more flexible than magicfilter, btw. The config
Please explain this. Last time I used "apsfilter", it was horrible to set
up (that was more than 1 year ago).
Winfried
From: Carl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 09:15:24 -0700 (PDT)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...] The System V scheme is much more flexible, yet it seems that
nobody who works with Linux or BSD is even aware that it exists. Is
there any kind of implementation
Carlos Carvalho writes:
>
> I have however a more fundamental objection to the unix print model.
> It's not good for modern printers that have many configuration
> options, like color/mono, paper/transparency, high/low resolution,
> econo mode, etc. The number of alternatives is so big that y
Dirk Eddelbuettel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 3 June 1996 19:20:
>
> Carlos> Moral: if you want to have smart printing, use window$ :-( :-( :-(
>
>Narrr. I am quite happy with one simple entry in /etc/printcap, plus one
>gs_filter. All I print is in postscript (generated by genscript or dvip
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:
:
: Carlos> Moral: if you want to have smart printing, use window$ :-( :-( :-(
:
: Narrr. I am quite happy with one simple entry in /etc/printcap, plus one
: gs_filter. All I print is in postscript (generated by genscript or dvipsk)
: and printed via gs. That I can s
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Narrr. I am quite happy with one simple entry in /etc/printcap, plus one
> gs_filter. All I print is in postscript (generated by genscript or dvipsk)
> and printed via gs. That I can simply say "print" in any application
> program.
>
I have found that magicfilter is pr
Carlos> Moral: if you want to have smart printing, use window$ :-( :-( :-(
Narrr. I am quite happy with one simple entry in /etc/printcap, plus one
gs_filter. All I print is in postscript (generated by genscript or dvipsk)
and printed via gs. That I can simply say "print" in any application
pro
I've already sent several bits of my printing tale. Here's the whole
story...
I discovered a few problems with apsfilter, as I already reported.
Then I found that dvilj wouldn't take a dvi file from stdin, as
required for automatic formatting so that you can just do
lpr -Pprinter file.dvi.
And no
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