KDE/Kprinter and Postscript
At my company, we have a server called a Fax*Star. This server runs on
Windows XP and shares a virtual printer via SMB. The Windows driver used
is 'Generic / Text Only' and does not accept any Postscript jobs. I'm trying
to send a text file to this printer using CUPS/KDE3.5/Etch using the
textonly.ppd driver from a Fedora package.
The problem I'm running into is that every KDE application seems to print it's
output as Postscript which will not work with this virtual printer. I have
found that using the command
lpr -P FaxStar -h -l textfile.txt
works. I decided to try setting up a virtual printer with KDE's Printer
Manager to send the output to this command, but it fails because the output
from the KDE application (in this case KWrite) is in Postscript. I there any
way to get a KDE application to print plain text instead of formating it to
plain text?
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