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From: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm)
Subject: apsfilter 4.8 - postscript for everybody and even more...
Message-ID: <ann-10481.780936026@cs.cornell.edu>
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Summary: smart lpd input filter that does uncompressing, piping,
filtering...
Keywords: apsfilter aps postscript lpd input-filter
Sender: mdw@cs.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)
Reply-To: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm)
Organization: home, 41469 Neuss, Germany
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 14:40:40 GMT
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)
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Good evening !
It's lpd input filter time again :-)
Thomas Bueschgens and I proudly present our current work
A P S F I L T E R - Release 4.8
Have fun it's worth ! Forget about the time, where you
had to uncompress files before printing or piping Postscript
documents through gs (after spending hours to figure out, which
options you need) so that you can print Postscript files on your
low cost printer at home or even at work ...
apsfilter supports Postscript and non Postscript printers as well
and supports monochrome and color printing via various printcap
entries. A nice shellscript installs the printer in the printcap,
creates spool dirs and compiles and installs two tools, that are
needed (a2ps and rewindstdin).
But now the complete Announcement
Andreas && Thomas ///
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A P S F I L T E R V 4.8 - "Announcement in USENET"
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copyright Andreas Klemm 1993, 1994
andreas@knobel.gun.de
---------------------------------------
co-author Thomas Bueschgens
sledge@hammer.oche.de
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WHAT IS APSFILTER
=================
APSFILTER is a lineprinter input filter for systems with a BSD alike
printing mechanism (lpd, /etc/printcap), that saves users a lot of work
when printing different file types no matter if compressed or not !!!
Additionally it enables non Postscript printers, that are supported
by the public domain postscript emulator "ghostscript" (gs), to
print postscript files automatically !
With the new apsfilter Version 3.0 it's now possible to print
*compacted* documents directly without unpacking !!!
The wanted packers/unpackers have to be already installed on your system.
o Supported packers:
GZIP, PACK, COMPRESS, FREEZE/MELT
o Supported file types:
Postscript
TeX DVI
Ascii
Data (PCL,...)
GIFF
TIFF
Sun Rasterfiles
FIG
PNM (pbmplus)
JPEG
Unix Platforms, that are able to run apsfilter flawlessly
=========================================================
- FreeBSD 1.1.5.1
- SUN SPARCSTATIONS, Solaris 1.1.1 (SunOS4)
- some (not all) Linux Distributions
Slackware V 1.1
Slackware 2.0.0 (problems with permissions in spooldir)
LST-1.8 (minor problem, incomplete /etc/magic file)
- and surely all commercial Unix Systems,
that run a BSD 4.X operating system
==========================================================
These are the sites, where apsfilter versions can be found
==========================================================
(1) This ftp server will also contain beta releases if we are
currently on the way to a new release
ftp server: ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
directory : pub/Linux/local/packs/APSfilter
(2) Here we'll put only final releases
ftp server : ftp.Germany.EU.net
directory : pub/os/Linux/Local.EUnet/People/akl
directory : pub/os/Linux/Incoming.EUnet
ftp the newest release from there. The current naming scheme for
apsfilter releases is: aps-Release.tgz
Beta versions contain the letter B in the version number and
have mostly a number with three digits.
Get apsfilter via ftp mail:
==========================
File: aps-48.tgz Size: ~200K
mail archive-server@germany.eu.net
Subject: <none>
uuencode
send os/Linux/Incoming.EUnet/aps-48.tgz
quit
Get apsfilter via ftp:
======================
ftp ftp.Germany.EU.Net
login: ftp
password: -yourname@yourhost.yourdomain
binary
hash
get /pub/os/Linux/Incoming.EUnet/aps-48.tgz
quit
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