Predrag, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > As LPD is good enough itself to set the plain text to printer I want to see > what is the easiest way to tell printer how to understand ps files If that > could be done with build in filter in LPD or the one that come with base > installation (I have to read more about this) then everything else would be > irrelevant and unnecessary. I could just edit printcup file by hand and have > the same or better functionality than with CUPS.
There used to be an article on the web about dealing with LPD printcap files and setting up filters. I used it to set up one of my HP printers. The process is really quite simple if you know what your printer's magic incantations are. However, that is sometimes hard to discover. All APSFilter does is create the relevant files and entries, and then has its own script for filtering. This can be done by hand, as well. The easiest way to do all this is probably by have APSFilter make the filter script for you, but if you just add a filter script for PS files (man printcap) in your entries, then if you pass a postscript file to the printer, it's all good. :-) Normally, if you have a non-postscript native printer, you may have to tell the filter to run some program like Ghostscript on the file to convert it to the native format for the printer. -- ((name "Aaron Hsu") (email/xmpp "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") (site "http://www.aaronhsu.com";)) [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
