[ale] Printing Suggestions

[Ken Nagorski]

Hi there, 

Have you looked into cups? It is the only to print with linux or unix if
you ask me... I believe it will deal nicely with your problem. 

Thanks
Ken

On 28 Oct 2001, James P. Kinney III wrote:

> enscript <filename>  does a nice job of ascii to postscript printing. It
> handles the long lines nicely.
> 
> On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 14:40, Cleveland Flowe wrote:
> > "Robert L. Harris" wrote:
> > > 
> > > At the office we have an HP Laserjet 8100L.  I'm used to apsfilter which
> > > has worked great in the past.  I'm trying to print to this booger using
> > > standard lpr.  When I "lpr test.txt" it looks nice, except for lines that
> > > go off the edge, they just disappear, no line wrap or anything.  When
> > > I have to print reports I don't want to go in and manually clean up
> > > the text since I just want to scan down it or have for personal reference
> > > in a meeting.
> > 
> > If you have textutils installed try this:
> > 
> > cat test.txt | fmt | lpr
> > 
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