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From: hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Filters for PS printer
Message-ID: <2377@hcshh.hcs.de>
Date: 1 Jun 93 08:52:14 GMT
References: <4g2ah5G00WB3MGEVgd@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: HCS GmbH, Hamburg, Europe
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In <4g2ah5G00WB3MGEVgd@andrew.cmu.edu> nn07+@andrew.cmu.edu (N. R. Natraj) writes:
>First of all thanks to all those who responded regarding my printer
>problems. I was able to get it up and running in HP II emulation mode
>but not in PS mode. Obviously since I doled out all that money for a
>PostScript printer I would like to use the printer to its full
>capabilities.
[...]
>It is a TI Microlaser PS 35. Are there filters available for this in PD?
Try out a package named "psf3", it appeared in comp.sources.misc volume 27
with many patches thereafter.
It compiles, installs and runs on 386bsd without any problems.
From the README:
P S F (v3)
PSF is a postscript print filter system designed to give reasonable
control over text output to a postscript printer. If desired, psf can
be installed as a filter for the lp/lpsched or lpr/lpd spooling systems.
Printed output may be configured for:
o 1-up, 2-up or 4-up on a page, landscape/portrait
o fonts/point size
o double sided printing
o pages scaled by row and column count
o lp banner page printing
o reverse order printing
o languages other than English
o optional ISO Latin1 character encoding
o left, right, top, bottom margin sizes
o line clipping or left/right justified line wrap
o page usage accounting
o printing to a pipe for multiple filtering in a spooler
or for printing to an Apple network printer (via papif?)
hope this helps,
hellmuth
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