On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 05:20:23PM -0700, Karl Kopper wrote: > commands. The problem we are having is that an extra blank page is sent at > the end of each PCL job (text file jobs sent from lp commands are okay). > > The offending part of the configuration appears to be the foomatic mf.cfg > file in the /var/spool/lpd/<printer> directory: > > ------------- [...] > define(DEFAULTfilter, text "" \r\n\14 )dnl > ------------- > > If we modify the TEXTfilter and the DEFAULTfilter lines as follows: > > define(DEFAULTfilter, text "" ) > > we stop wasting paper. But as the VOLATILE file states, when we restart lpd > (with PRINTCONF_FORCE_REBUILD=1) the mf.cfg file gets rebuilt. (Removing > the VOLATILE file doesn't help as the comments in the file seem to imply.) > > Where do we tell printconf (or is it the LPRng system?) not to do this? Or > where should we be setting the define for the DEFAULTfilter/TEXTfilter?
One option would be to use printconf-gui to enable the 'convert text
to PostScript' setting. The other option, I'm afraid, is to modify
/usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_backend.py at about line 397, to
change:
$text_filter = 'text "" \r\n\14 ';
to
$text_filter = 'text "" ';
Tim.
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