Re: font enlargement on file
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 02:58:29AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> I'm working from the command line and need to put two lines of
> writing on a 4x6 card as a sign so need the font larger than 8 point
> type. I have emacs on this machine and am wondering if something in
> emacs might help or might there be something else I have to use?
>
You might have a look at enscript or a2ps for this job.
Another approach I've taken for working with a label printer is to
generate postscript directly (from a shell script in my case). I
modified text.ps from the psprint package in CTAN
<http://www.ctan.org/get/dviware/psprint/unix/text.ps>.
Postscript hacking is different from most of the languages you see
these days, but once you get your head around the stack-oriented
programming concept it's not too difficult. Glenn Reid has made his
book "Thinking in Postscript" available for free download at
<http://www.rightbrain.com/pages/books.html>
HTH
dt
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