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Received: from ppsw3.cam.ac.uk (mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.38]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id BAA26861 for <executor@nacm.com>; Mon, 1 May 1995 01:35:05 -0700 Received: from mole.bio.cam.ac.uk by mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk with SMTP-CAM (XTPP8.1) as ppsw.cam.ac.uk; Mon, 1 May 1995 09:34:21 +0100 Received: from localhost by mole.bio.cam.ac.uk (931110.SGI/MDTG-V1.3@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk) id AA07789; Mon, 1 May 95 09:38:40 +0100 Message-Id: <9505010838.AA07789@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> To: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: Mac Printing via Ghostscript? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Apr 1995 22:54:00 MDT." <m0s5nVG-000GOeC@gwar.ardi.com> Date: Mon, 01 May 1995 09:38:39 +0100 From: Tim Cutts (Zoology) <tjrc1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk> Sender: owner-executor@nacm.com Precedence: bulk In your message (Sun, 30 Apr 95 22:54 MDT), you wrote: >>>>>> "Bob" == Bob <bob@xnet.com> writes: > > Bob> this should be possible, but i'm wondering if anyone's done > Bob> it. can you configure Executor for Linux to print via > Bob> ghostscript? i guess you could print to a file and do it > Bob> that way, but it would be nice to configure Executor to do it > Bob> automagically. > >Sure, we have a Linux box at ARDI set up this way. Make sure to pick >up E/L 1.99m before experimenting with printing under Linux. I suggest you use the excellent 'apsfilter' package. This is a set of lpr filters that will automatically detect the type of file being printed and convert it first to PostScript and then via ghostscript into whatever format your printer requires. You can then just use lpr for pretty well any program, let alone executor, and get properly printed output! It's pretty good even if you have a PostScript printer, since it formats ascii text beautifully, and will also cope with DVI, GIF, JPEG and all sorts of other things given that you have suitable conversion software (DVIPS, pbmplus, and so on). Regards, Tim.