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Re: Linux needs control.exe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony Martin)
Thu Oct 24 11:49:52 1996
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 08:47:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Anthony Martin <amartin@engr.csulb.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
cc: Alan Shutko <ats@wydo125.wustl.edu>, linux-apps@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610241507.QAA18984@isengard.merrill>
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On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, . Tethys SYSTEM ADMIN X wrote:
>
> Also, when configuring printers, it assumes you will always want to
> use ghostscript as a filter for non-PostScript printers. I had to
> manually fix the files to prevent this. Yes, I want to be able to
> print PostScript to my Epson compatible, but if I just want to print
> a plain text file, I'd rather not have the overhead of converting it
> to PostScript, and then using gs to RIP it to the appropriate format.
> Furthermore, it assumes that your printer resolution will be the
> same in both axes (mine is 360x180). It either looks too long (at
> 360dpi), or you get poor X resolution (at 180dpi).
The Red Hat print filter is a joke. I don't know why Red Hat insists on
doing everything from scratch. I highly recommend magicfilter, available
from sunsite. It is very easy to configure and can be set up to use any
number of filters. Do you want to print a compressed dvi file? No
problem. It has a lot of printers already configured and it is easy to
add more. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an rpm for it.
Tony.
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