Hendrik: ... > I dumped Cups, am using lprng. Works fine, except that some > programs don't know how to use lprng. With libreoffice, I find > I have to print to a file, and then lpr that file. It won't > go to the printer directly > > Of course then I have the abilty to get libreoffice to generate > postscript instead of pdf. Postsript is much smaller.
Can't you make a named pipe and let the other end connect to lpr ? http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lpg/node15.html Then "saving" to that file sends the content to lpr. It sounds like a nice hack to be added to the lpd deamon suite. Regards, /Karl Hammar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Aspö Data Lilla Aspö 148 S-742 94 Östhammar Sweden +46 173 140 57 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
