John, I've posted this back to the printing-discuss at opensolaris.org list in case anyone else has any idea.
See below ... Ng, John wrote: > > Thank you for the investigation. But to be honestly, I've always > been a MS Window man and new to the Solaris System and my main purpose > is to able to provide users on our Solaris workstations when the print > button or print function is activated, a program like or similar to the > PosterPrint in http://www.grandutils.com/PosterPrint/ will bring up and > allow the user to tile the documents in 1, 2, 4, 6 or whatever pages > according to his/her needs. I have successfully tested in Window > Platform but unable to find any resources on the Solaris 10 x86 > platform. And the beauty of PosterPrint is that the it is a virtual > printer and once it is set up as a default printer, all applications > that execute the Print command will trigger the PosterPrint software > (without requiring user to independently open it). Hence, I'm wondering > whether there is any software available in Solaris 10 x86 platform that > have that similar behavior and features. I looked around the web but was unable, like you, to find any Unix/Linux utilities like "PosterPrint" that do what you want in a GUI interface - maybe someone else knows of one. The only suggestions that I would have is to use the 'poster' utility in the way described by Till Kamppeter <kde-print at mail.kde.org> in this posting by piping application printer ps output through 'poster ... | lp -d myprinter' in the applications print command line :-( ... http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-print/2002-October/000095.html but not what you want. Another way would be to set 'poster' up as slow filter for the print system and then use a 'lp -y ...' option to invoke it (eg. lp -d myprinter -y a2poster myfile.ps) - but again not what you really want. FYI, to all, on 'poster' ... I found various versions of the 'poster' source out on the web, no sure where its official site is though. The latest version (2006) I found was on the kde site (part of KDEPrint) at ... http://printing.kde.org/downloads/ but the only version I could get to work correctly is the 1999 version from the debian site at ... http://packages.debian.org/stable/text/poster On Solaris sparc with a 'Kyocera KM-2530' printer the 2006 version of 'poster' prints out n pages but with the original image on every other page and not as a poster :-( . The 1999 version prints the expected output. Does anyone know where the official 'poster' website is now or is it now part of kdeprint? Paul > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Cunningham [mailto:paulcun at talk21.com] > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 3:26 PM > To: Paul Cunningham; Ng, John > Subject: Re: [printing-discuss] Tiling Print Driver for Solaris 10 x86 > platform > > Paul Cunningham wrote: >>Ng, John wrote: >> >>> I will download it, build it and let you know how I go about it. >> >>I noticed that there is a later version on the debian site at .. >> http://packages.debian.org/stable/text/poster >>with a patch that allows it to bolt in libpaper1 which I guess must >>extend it in some way. And if you hit the "Search for 'other versions > of >>poster'" link on that page it brings up a version dated even later but >>that seems to core dump when run. >> >>>Again many thanks for your assistance. >> >> >>That's okay :-) >> >>I built and tried the version from >>http://www.grandutils.com/PosterPrint/ (on sparc) but though it > created >>n pages from the single page of ps they were, for me, all blank when I >>printed them (maybe it didn't like the initial ps file I used). > but the one from debian http://packages.debian.org/stable/text/poster > (built without the libpaper1 patches) seems to work okay on a quick test > ... > ./poster -v -s2 /tmp/poster.ps | lp -d myprinter > > paul > > >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Paul Cunningham [mailto:paulcun at talk21.com] Sent: Tuesday, June > >>>12, 2007 4:47 PM >>>To: Ng, John >>>Subject: Re: [printing-discuss] Tiling Print Driver for Solaris 10 > x86 platform >>> >>>John Ng wrote: >>>> >>>> My name is John and is new to the forum as well as to the Solaris >>>10 x86 platform. I've a small request which you guys might be able to >>>assist. Currently, I'm looking for a print driver that support Print >>>Tiling feature, i.e. able to split one single diagram of any size and >>>span it over several pages when printing to any printer that works in >>>Sun Solaris 10 x86. So far, I can only find similar software under > the >>>Window system and the software name is PosterPrint and here is its > link: >>>http://www.grandutils.com/PosterPrint/. >>> >>>> I hope you guys can assist me or at least point me to the correct >>>direction. Thank you for your assistance. >>> >>>There is this tool. 'poster', that may do what you want ... >>> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/5682/poster.html >>>but you will have to download the source and build the binary > yourself >>>on solaris (its easy to build) though. I don't know how well it works >>>though. >>> >>>
