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From: stan@bombay.gps.caltech.edu ("Stan")
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Printing filter question
Date: 12 Oct 1995 15:56:36 GMT
Organization: USGS
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Message-ID: <45jdrl$pi9@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Reply-To: stan@bombay.gps.caltech.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: bombay.gps.caltech.edu
I have 2.0.5 running on a 486-DX/50 here at the office, and I am trying to
set up a print queue to send Postscript to a big HP DesignJet plotter. I
set up an entry for it in /etc/printcap that looks like this:
bps|Big HP plotter:\
:lp=:rm=131.215.66.240:rp=lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/bigps:lf=/var/log/bigps-errs:\
:sh:mx#0:sf:
This works great.
Now I want to set up a queue that will use psresize to scale up plots from
letter size paper to E size. I added the following printcap entry:
ps4x|scale up postscript:\
:lp=:rm=131.215.66.240:rp=lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/ps4x:lf=/var/log/ps4x-errs:\
:if=/usr/local/lib/ps4xif:\
:sh:mx#0:sf:rs:
The input filter script is very simple:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/psresize -q -Pletter -h44in -w34in
If I am in a window and do this:
cat postscriptfile.ps | /usr/local/lib/ps4xif | lpr -Pbps
I get my plot scaled up big. If I just print to the ps4x queue, I get it
small. What am I doing wrong here? It seems as if the input filter script
is not being called.
Thanks.
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