friedman@chekov.UU.NET (Barry Friedman) (04/16/91)
In article <1991Apr11.210439.19346@wam.umd.edu> rustyh@wam.umd.edu (Michael Katzmann) writes: >All of the ways I have seen to print ascii on a postscript printer >seem to convert the text to postscript. > >A friend of mine wrote a programme IN postscript that executes in >the printer, making it a "dumb" printer that will print straight text. >Changes in Margins/fonts/orientation/size etc is done by \\ "escapes". > Being in need of a program to allow our printers to handle postscript and ascii transparently, I tried the 'dumb' ascii program recently posted by Michael Katzmann. Unfortunately, either it or I am too dumb :-) since it appears that once this program is loaded into a printer there is no way to revert to normal postscript operation short of powering off the printer. Besides this the printer is extremely slow since the code seems to process input a character at a time. Come on guys, what is *THE BEST* unix solution to this problem? -- Barry Friedman INTERNET: chekov%friedman@uunet.uu.net Phone: (613) 782-2389 UUCP: ...!uunet!chekov!friedman Emax Computer Systems Inc. 440 Laurier Ave. W., Ottawa, Ont. Canada K1R 5C4
rustyh@wam.umd.edu (Michael Katzmann) (04/16/91)
In article <1991Apr16.002701.17403@bmers145.bnr.ca> friedman%chekov@uunet.uu.net writes: > >Being in need of a program to allow our printers to handle postscript >and ascii transparently, I tried the 'dumb' ascii program recently >posted by Michael Katzmann. Unfortunately, either it or I am too >dumb :-) since it appears that once this program is loaded into a >printer there is no way to revert to normal postscript operation short >of powering off the printer. Besides this the printer is extremely >slow since the code seems to process input a character at a time. > >Come on guys, what is *THE BEST* unix solution to this problem? > If you send an EOF (ctrl D) to the printer, the read will return false and the Finish routine will execute. Problem solved! Sorry I didn't say this in the comments. Also strip off the comments to the programme and it will take 1/2 the time to download it. (You can't win. sigh) -- Michael Katzmann (VK2BEA/G4NYV/NV3Z) Please email to this address | Broadcast Sports Technology | 2135 Espey Ct. #4 \|/ Crofton MD 21114-2442 (301) 721-5151 ...uunet!opel!vk2bea!michael
bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) (04/17/91)
From: friedman@chekov.UU.NET (Barry Friedman)
Reply-To: friedman%chekov@uunet.uu.net
(By the way, you ought to fix that From: line. Uunet turned off their
temporary support for that sort of stuff on June 1, 1990.)
In article <1991Apr16.002701.17403@bmers145.bnr.ca> friedman@chekov.UU.NET (Barry Friedman) writes:
Come on guys, what is *THE BEST* unix solution to this problem?
Try a2ps version 3 by miguel@imag.imag.fr (Miguel Santana), released
on or about February 16 of 1990 as Volume 10 issue 73 of
comp.sources.misc. We use it heavily.haroldt@paralandra.yorku.ca (Harold Tomlinson) (04/19/91)
In article <1991Apr16.154707.9283@wam.umd.edu> rustyh@wam.umd.edu (Michael Katzmann) writes: > In article <1991Apr16.002701.17403@bmers145.bnr.ca> friedman%chekov@uunet.uu.net writes: > > > >Being in need of a program to allow our printers to handle postscript > >and ascii transparently, I tried the 'dumb' ascii program recently > >posted by Michael Katzmann. Unfortunately, either it or I am too > >dumb :-) since it appears that once this program is loaded into a > >printer there is no way to revert to normal postscript operation short > >of powering off the printer. Besides this the printer is extremely > >slow since the code seems to process input a character at a time. > > > >Come on guys, what is *THE BEST* unix solution to this problem? > > > If you send an EOF (ctrl D) to the printer, the read will return false > and the Finish routine will execute. Problem solved! Sorry I didn't > say this in the comments. > > Also strip off the comments to the programme and it will take 1/2 the > time to download it. (You can't win. sigh) Why not convert the text to postscript? I picked up a nice converter program called 'lwf'. It could be modified to detect if the file is postscript or not by looking for the %! at the start of the file or... Write a shell script that will detect if it is postscript and pipe it through lwf. I picked up the 'LaserWriter filter' in comp.sources.misc. It was posted by brachman@grads.cs.ubc.ca (or, at least then shar file was created by him). This program has worked for me on QMS's, HP's, and an Apple. -- # Harold Tomlinson ## haroldt@paralandra.yorku.ca # # Computing & Communications Services ## (416)736-5257-33802 # # YORK UNIVERSITY, Ont, CANADA ## ########################### #
les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) (04/19/91)
In article <BOB.91Apr16202038@volitans.MorningStar.Com> bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes: >Try a2ps version 3 by miguel@imag.imag.fr (Miguel Santana), released >on or about February 16 of 1990 as Volume 10 issue 73 of >comp.sources.misc. We use it heavily. Did you make any local mods? I like the 2-up layout most of the time but sometimes I'd like to print 1-up with no borders and/or no headers, and sometimes I would like to pass the header info on the command line. Also, the tab and backspace interpretation doesn't seem to work right. There have been several other versions on the net as well and each seems to have some flaw if you don't like the default output. Les Mikesell les@chinet.chi.il.us
brachman@cs.ubc.ca (Barry Brachman) (04/19/91)
In article <HAROLDT.91Apr19085342@paralandra.yorku.ca> haroldt@paralandra.yorku.ca (Harold Tomlinson) writes: > I picked up a nice converterprogram called 'lwf'. > I picked up the 'LaserWriter filter' in comp.sources.misc. It was posted by > brachman@grads.cs.ubc.ca (or, at least then shar file was created by him). > > This program has worked for me on QMS's, HP's, and an Apple. > >-- ># Harold Tomlinson ## haroldt@paralandra.yorku.ca # ># Computing & Communications Services ## (416)736-5257-33802 # ># YORK UNIVERSITY, Ont, CANADA ## ########################### # The newest version is available on cs.ubc.ca (137.82.8.5) as pub/lwf-2.2.shar.Z. ----- Barry Brachman | UUCP: {alberta,uw-beaver,uunet}!ubc-cs!brachman Dept. of Computer Science| Internet: brachman@cs.ubc.ca Univ. of British Columbia| Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z2 | CSNET: brachman@ubc.csnet (604) 228-3123 |