changing fonts when printing

2007-12-25 8:01:00

Hello Sun Managers,

Thanks for all the replies.

this is my original question:

Is there a way to change the font of the standard output of a text file

produced by the lpr command ? We are printing on a postscript printer using the mp print utility. mp doesn`t allow us to specify a particular font

option. We don't want to read in all text files, convert them in a word

processor to change the font, etc. because this is to time consuming.

Does anybody know how the -1234font option of lpr works ?

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- Most of the responses specify the use the enscript filter management

software which is a part of the newsprint package.I tried the pl command

with different options(refered in the newsprint manual) and it works very

well.

- 3 others replies suggested me to use a public domain software called psf

via ftp:

host: fsa.cpsc.ucalgary.ca, cpsc.ucalgary.ca, or 136.159.2.1

files: pub/psf/psf3.3.tar.Z

- a last answer suggest to look in the directory:

/usr/openwin/share/xnews/client/mp, there are effectively a *.ps files

that mp command (piped with lpr) uses.You just have to edit one of this

different files ie:mp.pro.ts.ps if you use mp with the -ts option,change

the font and send printing .it's very interesting and it also works very

well.

again thanks to:

Alan J. Rothstein <merccap!alan>

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