Re: lpr does not work
> From: joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen)
> Subject: Re: lpr does not work
> To: COP95CHT@sheffield.ac.uk (TING Ching-Hua)
> Date sent: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 21:40:52 +0100 (CET)
> Copies to: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Hi,
> >
> > Papers came with mis-aligned but correct content printing if
> > documents were sent from Xterm.
> >
> > Papers came without printing if an application did the printing.
> >
> > The system used is:
> >
> > HP LaserJet IIP
> > Pentium II
> > Debian 1.3.1
>
> What kind of documents do you want to print? just plain text,
> postscript, or something else? If you want to print postscript,
> do you use "magicfilter"?
I tested plain text files only.
> It's strange that something prints "from xterm" (I take it you mean
> that you manually issued the "lpr file" command), and don't print
> from an application, as the application usually also just executes
> "lpr file". Only, mostly the application tries to print postscript
> files, and maybe some script tries to convert that to LJ-IIP language.
> (using magicfilter, gs, whatever). That could go wrong.
>
> Also, what's "mis-aligned"?
> do you mean that the text
> looks like this
> (the well known
> staircase effect)?
Yes, the mis-alihenment looks like the above.
>
> --
> joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
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