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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Printing filter question Date: 13 Oct 1995 08:48:19 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 34 Message-ID: <45l5k3$3h3@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <45jdrl$pi9@gap.cco.caltech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Stan <stan@bombay.gps.caltech.edu> wrote: >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. Printer filtering does only occur on the "final" lpd agent, you cannot set it up on a machine forwarding its jobs (i.e., one using the "rp" feature). I think this can be worked around, but i don't have anything handy. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)