On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 01:21:02 +0000 Till Kamppeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you have set up a print queue for your printer with the tools coming > with your distro (or by following the LPRng instructions on > linuxprinting.org: http://www.linuxprinting.org/lpd-doc.html) the > spooler will do the conversion from PostScript to PCL automatically. All > applications (Mozilla, OpenOffice.org, KDE, ...) produce PostScript > output as device-independent standard format for print jobs. It is the > spooler's responsability to make the printer's native language out of > it. So simply choose this "Generic PostScript printer" and the printer > should print correctly. This is getting beyond the realm of LPRng, but I think you'd be happier establishing an Xprint server for doing this. Mozilla can send jobs on to the Xprint server, which uses any fonts available to an X-server for rendering your job in whatever format you need (PS or PCL5 look like they are supported). You can also define printer models to allow duplexing modes. All you need to do use Mozilla with Xprint is to set an XPSERVERLIST environment variable to point at your Xprint server, then start Mozilla. If there's a printer in your Xprint server that matches $PRINTER, Mozilla will figure that out and use it by default. (And, if you're using certain Solaris builds of Mozilla, you >must< use Xprint for printing...) -- ============================================================================ John Perkins | University of Wisconsin-Madison Associate Researcher | Department of Computer Science [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1210 W. Dayton St. 608-262-0438/608-262-6626 FAX | Madison, WI 53706-1685 ============================================================================ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
