17 Dec
2011
17 Dec
'11
3:38 p.m.
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 05:07:21PM -0500, Mouse wrote:
As for print filters, I hvae yet to find any documented option that
allows me to tell it whether I want to print a particular piece of text
as text or as PostScript code. (Because the content is exactly
identical, it cannot even in principle tell on its own.) I haven't run
into this problem on more than a half-dozen systems, though; I don't
print very much, and even less on systems other than my own. But the
details of the issue are not my point; my point is that the content is
not always enough to tell.
The printer queues are only one part of it. You could solve that by
setting up a raw queue, i.e. not filters at all, dump whatever is handed
to lp straight to the printer. However, if you shelled out for a printer
that actually supports PostScript, then the printer will most likely go
"Hey, this is PostScript, I know how to interpret that!" ;-)
Kind regards,
Alex.
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