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Re: Printing is landscape




On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote:

> 
> 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?
> 
> Lindsay
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1. apsfilterrc - This has settings for 1 page / 2 page / 1 landscape etc.
2. use Pascii - ??


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