Here's a little howto for those of you who are having problems with faulty margins with apsfilter. I'm personally using a Brother HL-1440, but the general idea still applies to all printers.
1) Edit the file /usr/local/share/gho.stscript/7.07/lib/align.ps and add %! on a line by itself, before anything else. 2) type lpr /usr/local/share/ghostscript/7.07/lib/align.ps and you will get a page that has two lines, intersecting in the lower left corner. 3) Follow the instructions on the page that prints to compute the numbers you need to enter. 4) Create a file called /etc/margins.ps that contains the following: %! << /.HWMargins [18 0 18 0] /Margins [0 -90] >> setpagedevice Your numbers will vary from mine. This is for a Brother HL-1440 Laser printer. (The bottom margin on mine is very low on the page, but I don't loose any text. Changing the bottom value seems to cut off text.) Make certain that this file is world readable. #chmod a+r /etc/margins.ps 5) Edit the file /usr/local/etc/apsfilter/apsfilterrc and find the line near the bottom containing PS_INIT (currently commented out). 6) Uncomment the line and change it to read: PS_INIT=/etc/margins.ps 7) Print a test page! Play with those numbers in the /etc/margins.ps file until you get the margins you're looking for. You do not need to restart lpd in order for changes to take effect. Hope you all enjoy this! -- Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
