Re: Apsfilter and margins...
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 02:18, Eric F Crist wrote: -Original Message- From: Malcolm Kay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 9:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FreeBSD questions List Subject: Re: Apsfilter and margins... On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 02:33, Eric F Crist wrote: Hello list, Does anyone here use apsfilter? If so, can you tell me how to fix the margins. There is NO bottom margin (text runs off bottom of the page) and the top margin is about 2 inches. Any idea on how to change this? No information about your circumstances -- printer make/model -- what sort of files you are passing to it. This is sometimes a printer adjustment. Have you read the printer manual? Malcolm Kay Malcolm, I've got Brother HL-1440 laser printer. I throw all kinds of files to it. Everything from text via command line (i.e. lpr /etc/rc.conf) to openoffice documents to webpages from Konquror or Firebird. Yes, I've read the printer manual. Eric F Crist At work I have an HL1440 shared as a network printer. I don't use Apsfilter. It works fine with plain-text, postscript or PCL. The printcap entry: hl1440|raw1440|Brother HL1440:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/raw1440:\ :if=/usr/local/libexec/lpd/raw1440:\ :mx#0:\ :sh:\ :lp=:\ :rm=hl1440:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: And /usr/local/libexec/lpd/raw1440: #!/bin/sh # # Treat LF as CR+LF: # printf \033k2G || exit 2 # # Read first two characters of the file # IFS= read -r first_line first_two_chars=`expr $first_line : '\(..\)'` if [ $first_two_chars = %! ]; then # # It is PostScript; use Ghostscript to scan-convert and print it. # /usr/local/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=hl1250 -r300 \ -sOutputFile=- - exit 0 else # # Plain text or PCL, so just print it directly; print a form feed # at the end to eject the last page. # echo $first_line cat printf \033l0H exit 0 fi exit 2 --- Suggest you check what ghostscript DEVICE Apsfilter is using -- hl1250 seems to be a good choice. Other than that you could set up something similar to the above as an alternative printcap entry to test out your printer while bypassing Apsfilter -- should at least resolve whether the problem is with the printer or Apsfilter. Malcolm ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SOLVED: apsfilter and margins
Here's a little howto for those of you who are having problems with faulty margins with apsfilter. I'm personally using a Brother HL-1440, but the general idea still applies to all printers. 1) Edit the file /usr/local/share/gho.stscript/7.07/lib/align.ps and add %! on a line by itself, before anything else. 2) type lpr /usr/local/share/ghostscript/7.07/lib/align.ps and you will get a page that has two lines, intersecting in the lower left corner. 3) Follow the instructions on the page that prints to compute the numbers you need to enter. 4) Create a file called /etc/margins.ps that contains the following: %! /.HWMargins [18 0 18 0] /Margins [0 -90] setpagedevice Your numbers will vary from mine. This is for a Brother HL-1440 Laser printer. (The bottom margin on mine is very low on the page, but I don't loose any text. Changing the bottom value seems to cut off text.) Make certain that this file is world readable. #chmod a+r /etc/margins.ps 5) Edit the file /usr/local/etc/apsfilter/apsfilterrc and find the line near the bottom containing PS_INIT (currently commented out). 6) Uncomment the line and change it to read: PS_INIT=/etc/margins.ps 7) Print a test page! Play with those numbers in the /etc/margins.ps file until you get the margins you're looking for. You do not need to restart lpd in order for changes to take effect. Hope you all enjoy this! -- Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apsfilter and margins...
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 02:33, Eric F Crist wrote: Hello list, Does anyone here use apsfilter? If so, can you tell me how to fix the margins. There is NO bottom margin (text runs off bottom of the page) and the top margin is about 2 inches. Any idea on how to change this? No information about your circumstances -- printer make/model -- what sort of files you are passing to it. This is sometimes a printer adjustment. Have you read the printer manual? Malcolm Kay ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Apsfilter and margins...
-Original Message- From: Malcolm Kay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 9:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FreeBSD questions List Subject: Re: Apsfilter and margins... On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 02:33, Eric F Crist wrote: Hello list, Does anyone here use apsfilter? If so, can you tell me how to fix the margins. There is NO bottom margin (text runs off bottom of the page) and the top margin is about 2 inches. Any idea on how to change this? No information about your circumstances -- printer make/model -- what sort of files you are passing to it. This is sometimes a printer adjustment. Have you read the printer manual? Malcolm Kay Malcolm, I've got Brother HL-1440 laser printer. I throw all kinds of files to it. Everything from text via command line (i.e. lpr /etc/rc.conf) to openoffice documents to webpages from Konquror or Firebird. Yes, I've read the printer manual. Eric F Crist President AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apsfilter and margins...
Hello list, Does anyone here use apsfilter? If so, can you tell me how to fix the margins. There is NO bottom margin (text runs off bottom of the page) and the top margin is about 2 inches. Any idea on how to change this? Thanks. -- Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588 pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Apsfilter printing margins?
Hello list! I have installed apsfilter and finally got my ZOT lpd print server working. However, the bottom margin doesn't exist. Top, left, and right are just fine. I tried setting margins manually from within various aps within KDE, but to no avail. Anyone have a similar problem? -- Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588 pgp0.pgp Description: signature
