On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 10:56:32AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 09:08:16AM -0600, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > | Robert L. Harris wrote: > | > > | >I found the HP driver I needed on the linuxprinting.org. The only > | >problem now is the sucker is stair stepping and I can't find a way to > | >turn it off. > | > | Dunno.... my printer worked fine "as-is". You might want to dive into > | your printer's docs and see if there is a switch for setting the > | carrage-return/line-feed sequence (M$DOS) to line-feed only (Unix). > > It's the other way around. The hardware needs typewriter-style LF > _and_ CR "commands". The "stair" effect is acheived by sending LF (to > advance to the next line) without returning the carriage to the left > margin. As you all know, UNIX text files have only LF characters to > mark the end of a line. The unix philosophy is to let the device > drivers handle hardware-specific conversions. In this case you need > the print spooler to add CRs to every LF. I don't know how you would > actually set that -- with cups it has "just worked" for every printer > I've tried (and I know that at least some of them need that > conversion).
I'm no printing expert, but couldn't you configure the print spooler to pipe stuff through todos? Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
