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Re: Apsfilter, Deskjet 540, RHL 4.0 and Ghostscript Problem.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Nielsen)
Sat Nov 2 00:26:24 1996
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 22:25:22 -0700 (MST)
From: Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>
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On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, RHS Linux User wrote:
> >
> > I am just curious why anyone would wanna use apsfilter when the printool
> > in redhat seems to do the same job?
> > Or is the printool an alias for apsfilter?
> >
> Someone correct me please, probably wrong, but from anything I have seen,
> the printool only handles postscript. With aps, I can specify if I want
> text printed 2 "pages" per page, "RAW", it will print ps, dvi, jpeg, etc.
> without any formatting, just lpr mylatex.dvi and presto.
>
> Matter of fact, lemme know if RH printool is this good please.
Maybe not quite as good, but it can handle ascii text. And if you play
around with /etc/printcap and the filters, you can make it do just about
anything that apsfilter can. It's lpr and the filters that do the work.
apsfilter does a good job of generating multiple filters. Print tool uses
nenscript instead of a2ps to handle ascii. I prefer genscript myself.
Bob
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