On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 06:04:06PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 02:24:20 +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > > How is it possible to be able to display something on screen but not on > > printer? Couldn't X just treat a printer as a kind of display device that > > it can write to? > > AFAIK, it can. See http://www.x-docs.org/XPRINT/xp_proto.pdf , > http://www.x-docs.org/XPRINT/xp_library.pdf , > http://www.x-docs.org/Xserver/Xprt.pdf . >
You may well be on to something there. Discussion on bugzilla of similar problems to mine with printing non-latin characters seems to suggest that the best solution is to use Xprint, the mozilla module that implements Xprt. However I'm buggered if I can get it to work. Looks like Xprint isn't compiled into Debian's mozilla (I raised a bug about this). Has anyone had success in using Xprt? It's extremely badly documented. Drew -- PGP public key available at http://people.debian.org/~dparsons/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
