[TriLUG] printing a .ps file - SOLVED!
Greg
gregbrown at mindspring.com
Mon Feb 3 12:32:57 EST 2003
'cat p587.ps | lpr' worked like a champ!
Thanks!
Greg
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 12:08, Joseph Tate wrote:
> Whatever you need to do to get it into the printer cue. If for example
> it was a lpr system, I would just cat something.ps | lpr or simply lpr
> something.ps. LaserJets are postscript printers so you don't need to go
> through any application to print postcript files. You may even be able
> to "cat somethin.ps > /dev/lpt1" or wherever your printer is connected.
> I don't have experience with cups though, but it should be simple.
>
> Geoff Purdy wrote:
>
> >Is Ghostview ( http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ ) what you need?
> >
> >
> >
> >>From: Greg <gregbrown at mindspring.com>
> >>Date: 2003/02/03 Mon AM 11:53:05 EST
> >>To: trilug at trilug.org
> >>Subject: [TriLUG] printing a .ps file
> >>
> >>Hey all. I have a RH 8.0 machine with a LaserJet configured with CUPS.
> >>What is the best utility to use to print .ps postscript files? Man -k
> >>postscript vomited back nothing very useful..
> >>
> >>Greg
> >>
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