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Re: PRINTER device on Linux [message #41508]

Tue, 02 November 2004 13:02

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Marshall Perrin writes:

> This is something of a dodge around the problem, but
> writing a postscript file and then spawning "lp filename"
> should do the trick. I don't think I've ever encountered
> a modern Linux box whose printer driver didn't speak Postscript.

No question this is the preferred solution, but the
problem I had was with a PrintWindow program that does
a quick screen dump and sends it to a printer. I solved
the problem by just doing a Color_Quan on the 24-bit
image and loaded the color tables before I Set_Plot
to PRINTER. Works OK, but that PRINTER device is more
trouble than it is worth, once again. :-(

Cheers,

David
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		Re: PRINTER device on Linux By: David Fanning on Tue, 02 November 2004 13:02
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		Re: PRINTER device on Linux By: David Fanning on Tue, 02 November 2004 08:22
		Re: PRINTER device on Linux By: KM on Tue, 02 November 2004 08:12

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