Re: Three interesting things.

[Michael Loßin <losse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Culleton wrote:
> 
> 1. After failing to get raw (non-postcript) printing working in the
> stable release I turned to the development release.
> I used lpr -Praw1 foo.txt. lpr foo.txt doesn't work with either release.
> 
>  Well, there is good news and bad news. My first test document did
> indeed get printed out. It was maybe 20 lines long. The printer printed
> those 20 lines and then just hung with the printhead sort of waving back
> and forth in the breeze. I pushed the page eject button and got my
> printout. The routine needs to add a page eject command at the end of
> the file.

apsfilterrc -> RAW_EPILOGUE='\014'

(This is, of course, covered in the FAQ.)

> 2. I have an Epson 880 printer. The closest driver is stcany_h.upp at
> 720 DPI. My gs program has the stp driver but no one has yet told me how
> to convince apsfilter to use it.

SETUP -> printer type -> ghostscript add-on

> 3. There is a confusing aspect to the SETUP script on the 6.01 release.
> If after setting the parameters you just enter q  then the printcap
> won't get built. You have to press I to build printcap and the filter,
> and then press q. On previous releases there was a C "continue" option.
> The wording should be changed to indicate that the "I" step is mandatory
> even if you only have one printer.

I think "install printer" pretty much says it all. BTW, what if you don't
want to install a printer, but perform all the extra tasks (like installing
man pages)? You just need to "finish the installation"...


Michael