Re: Printing Question
my 2 cents would be :
"install progeny, it does all"
and
"then upgrade to woody"
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Wagnon" <mwagnon1@home.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 10:55 AM
Subject: Printing Question
> Hi all?
>
> I'm still battling with this. I have lpd, magicfilter, et al,
> installed. I'm able to print from various programs without problems,
> however, when I print plain ascii text, the printer prints just fine,
> but I need to manually eject the page. I've tried to set my printcap
> up to send a form feed when done by inserting 'ff', but that hasn't
> panned out. Anyway, I'm sure if I want that because ps files are
> ejected normally.
>
> I've been poking around in the input filters supplied with
> magicfilter, and I noticed that the default filter uses recode like
> so:
>
> # Default entry for normal (text) files. This must be the last entry!
> # =====================================================================
> # Please adjust recode's codepage conversion manually according to
> # your
> # local needs. We apologize for the inconveniences...
> #
> default filter /usr/bin/recode --silent us..ibmpc
>
>
> Actually the 'us' was originally 'latin1'. I've left the file pretty
> much alone with the exception of editing to replace 'pdftops' with
> 'pdf2ps' as it's named on my system. So I figure that maybe the
> solution to my problem lays somewhere in recode, although searching
> through the recode docs is beginning to change my mind. Is anyone
> doing anything special to print plain ascii text on a woody system
> running lpd, magicfilter, etc.?
>
> TIA!
> --
> Mark Wagnon <mwagnon1@home.com>
>
>
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