Today, Benjamin Scott gleaned this insight:
> On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
> > I seem to be having problems with LF->CR/LF translation with printing.
> > Ironically, printing postscript files works just fine.
>
> This would likely be because PostScript jobs contain an exact description of
> the page in a formal language -- in other words, it should print correctly or
> not at all. Contrast this with text, which is simply printed "as is" by the
> printer.
>
> > I installed 'printtool' under Debian, and it's the RH printtool. The
> > printcap file is identical to that under other RH6.1 systems, except it
> > doesn't work.
>
> Minor difference, that. ;-) Red Hat's printing subsystem passes everything
> through a filter script, which is controlled by a number of files in the
> /var/spool/lpd/<printer_name>/ directory. For example:
> Things you may be interested in would be the "textonly.cfg" file, which has
> an entry "CRLFTRANS=1" on my computer, and the "general.cfg" file, which has
> an entry "ASCII_TO_PS=NO" for me. Enabling either option will likely fix your
> problem.
Good advice under RedHat, but I suspect it won't work on Debian, since
they don't use RedHat's print filter package. You might be able to get
away with simply installing the RH package with alien, but then again, you
might not...
> You might also look for a DIP switch (or similar option) on your printer to
> tell it to use Unix style EOL markers, as opposed to MS-DOS style. My old
> dot-matrix printer had such a feature.
The HP laserjets we use do this in software... there's no dip switch but
there is a config option, I believe under "Paper Handling Menu" or
something like that.
Paul, I believe the hp's come with this set to DOS-like EOL characters by
default, but where everyone prints through a Linux-based printer (whether
they know it or not) it might be worthwhile to change all of them to
Unix-like EOL characters. You may want to experiment...
--
You know that everytime I try to go where I really want to be,
It's already where I am, cuz I'm already there...
---------------------------------------------------------------
Derek D. Martin | Unix/Linux Geek
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---------------------------------------------------------------
**********************************************************
To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the
*body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter:
unsubscribe gnhlug
**********************************************************
