Re: lpr font

2013-05-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
Joachim Backes wrote: >>> a2ps may help you just need a postscript printer. >> >> I did try that, but it seemed equally difficult to control, >> eg to print in larger or smaller font. > Use the a2ps options "-f", or the options "-1" .. "-9" Thanks, I'll try that next time. Incidentally, I foun

Re: lpr font

2013-05-29 Thread Joachim Backes
On 05/29/2013 10:07 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Terry Polzin wrote: On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 19:57 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: Is there a simple way of changing the font used by lpr to print out a text file, after say "lpr foo.txt" on a Fedora-18 CUPS printer? a2ps may help you just need a post

Re: lpr font

2013-05-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
Terry Polzin wrote: > On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 19:57 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Is there a simple way of changing the font used by lpr >> to print out a text file, >> after say "lpr foo.txt" on a Fedora-18 CUPS printer? > a2ps may help you just need a postscript printer. I did try that, but it

Re: lpr font

2013-05-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
Timothy Murphy wrote: > Is there a simple way of changing the font used by lpr > to print out a text file, > after say "lpr foo.txt" on a Fedora-18 CUPS printer? > > The font in my case is much too small for my eyesight. > Any suggestions or advice gratefully received. To follow up to myself, I

Re: lpr font

2013-05-29 Thread Terry Polzin
On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 19:57 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Is there a simple way of changing the font used by lpr > to print out a text file, > after say "lpr foo.txt" on a Fedora-18 CUPS printer? > > The font in my case is much too small for my eyesight. > Any suggestions or advice gratefully rec

lpr font

2013-05-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
Is there a simple way of changing the font used by lpr to print out a text file, after say "lpr foo.txt" on a Fedora-18 CUPS printer? The font in my case is much too small for my eyesight. Any suggestions or advice gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +