[745] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Linux needs control.exe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yeechang Lee)
Thu Oct 24 13:10:15 1996
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:02:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Yeechang Lee <ylee@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>
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tethys@lonnds.ml.com <tethys@lonnds.ml.com> says:
> 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.
If you want to avoid problems like the above I would strongly advise
the use of a filter system like magicfilter or apsfilter. I use the
former; it will print plaintext straight to the printer while sending
dvi and PostScript files to the appropriate programs like GhostScript,
etc.
Red Hat, how 'bout incorporating one of these filters into your setup
instead of continuing to muck around with the printtool?
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