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From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Printing text with lpr
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 13:19:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49bf44f10904011319y71acc34ev3782e35762d6e45c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62B69C76-7D84-4FFF-B242-0EAA077CA68B@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>

> ...
> Ah, postscript works!
> ...
>
> Thanks a lot for the info and I'll
> get to work on a postscript script.
>
> Looks like text2ps might be worth a look.
> http://pwet.fr/man/linux/commandes/text2ps
> I can't find the Gentoo package, but `eix -S postscript` finds a number of
> similar-looking tools.
> Stroller.

Thanks a lot Stroller.  I've got a simple 8 or so line postscript file
with a single variable in it which I can lpr straight to the printer.
Very glad.

- Grant



      reply	other threads:[~2009-04-01 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-01  2:40 [gentoo-user] {OT} Printing text with lpr Grant
2009-04-01  3:25 ` Joseph
2009-04-01  5:00   ` Stroller
2009-04-01 16:52     ` Grant
2009-04-01 19:53       ` Stroller
2009-04-01 20:19         ` Grant [this message]

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