[ale] landscape printing

[Geoffrey Myers]

> Unix Guru Dude <geof at denali.is.net> writes:
> \ Anyone like to share how I can print landscape to my printer?
> That depends entirely on what type of printer.  
> 
> If you're printing a text document and you have a PostScript driver for
> the printer (e.g. ghostscript), then you can use the 'nenscript'
> program with the '-r' (rotate) option to turn the text into PostScript
> that prints in landscape mode:
> 
> 	nenscript -p- -r filename | lpr

This should work.  I am using ghostscript.  Thanks, I'll give it a try.

> 
> (Where "lpr" may be replaced by whatever you have to do to print
> PostScript, if you don't have that built into the lpd subsystem).
> With the above command, the text is still the same size as if it were
> portrait; if you need to get even more text per line, you can shrink
> the font:
> 
> 	nenscript -p- -r -fCourier7 filename | lpr
> 
> You can also use this technique to print two half-size portrait pages
> on one landscape printout, thus saving paper:
> 
> 	nenscript -p- -2r filename | lpr

Great, this will help with those code print outs...
Thanks again.  I'm assuming nenscript is gnu or some other costless software?


> 
> There may be other ways to do this, but they would be printer-specific.
> 
> 
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