On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote:
> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 13:39:17 +0800 (WST)
> From: Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Printing is landscape
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> On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Carl Fink wrote:
>
> > I've just installed my new NEC SuperScript 100C printer and configured
> > my Debian 1.3.1 system to print to it.
>
> [snip]
>
> > Now everything works. The SuperScript 100C is set up as a Deskjet
> > 500, which it emulates. Printing to raw works okay, but printing to
> > GhostScript via apsfilter produces really tiny type, in landscape.
> >
> > I checked the GS docs, the apsfilter docs, the lpr docs (which don't
> > actually exist), the man pages, the printcap man page . . . there is
> > *no* ocurrence of the words "portrait" or "landscape" in those
> > documents. This is really weird.
>
> You need to check
> the a2ps man page
> /etc/apdfilterrc
>
> This should solve the landscape problem, but I don't know about the point
> size.
>
> I have my own problems with apsfilter. When printing ascii to "auto" it
> skips the a2ps step and the output comes out just as if it were printed
> via "raw". Any ideas on this one? Would somebody who has it working send
> me the log file of a print job?
I had a lot of toubles like this using apsfilter, besides I could not
manage to print from emacs or from inside another program... The only way
out was changing to _magicfilter_, and blieve me, it was a really good
change ! :) In my opinion, magicfilter is a lot better than apsfilter, at
least for me it works better.
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> Lindsay
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