Jose- Thanks for the tip and sorry I did not thank you earlier, I thought that I had. Anyway the problem was that I had the "fast text printing" box checked in the printtool for this printer. Still trying to figure out what all goes on here. This is what I have come up with so far and it can't be right, can it? (lp is a remote hp5si using jetdirect card and lj4 filter) When I do: #man autorpm |lpr man somehow knows that the standard output is not the destination and groff is used to format output (not sure where groff fits but I know it is there somewhere) I believe the page footer is here at this point since it is there when I do a man autorpm > autorpm.man and less autorpm.man lpr spools its input to the default printer lp the /var/spool/lpd/lp/filter script is used to try and determine what type of file it is. if fast ascii text is on then the asc-to-printer.fpi script is called and after changing the CR to CR/LF using sed the data is dumped straight to the printer (I guess in the filter script) My guess is this is where I was getting an extra linefeed that was causing all the pagination to be off. Now the fun part. if not fast ascii text then the filter script does cat - |asc-to-ps.fpi|ps-to-printer.fpi that converts the ascii output from groff into postscript and then uses ghostscript to print the postscript. Wow! Even if I am close I had no idea. I did not find the fast_ascii_text test in the filter file since I was on the track before I really got into it and running the printool changed the filter script. at least vi complained when I got out of it. I got on the right track after finding the DEBUG_* variables in the filter file and setting them to 1, printing, and then looking in /tmp/filter.debug. Again thanks for tip of looking in man printcap it got me started down the right path anyway. Bret "Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: > > Are you sure that linux is set up for A4 format (or the reverse letter > size). > > I had this problem myself and all I had to do was modify the printcap for > the appropriate page size (man printcap). > > By default my output was arriving as Euro A4 format instead of letter. > > -JMS > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bret Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 8:58 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Hp print anomoly > > I keep meaning to find the time to ask this so here goes. > > We have an HP 5Si with a jet direct card in it. Our Samba server has > this printer set up as the default printer. > > I can print to the HP by creating a network printer from the window > boxes (both 98 and NT) with absolutly no problems but when I print man > pages from the server or any of the Linux boxes, the paging is off. A > whole page does not fit onto a printed page and there is no page break > after the footer of the page. I think I selected the the HP4 printer in > the printtool when I set it up. > > What is up? Is this the result of the printcap selected by the > printtool. I have never had to setone up or modify one. I am of the > GUI linux generation having got my first tast of linux with redhat 4.5 I > think it was. > > This is obviously not a show stopper but it is kind of irritating. Any > help greatly appreciated. > > Bret > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" > as the Subject. > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" > as the Subject.
begin:vcard n:Hughes;Bret tel;fax:918.587.0131 tel;work:918.587.0131 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:www.elevating.com org:Elevating Communications Inc adr:;;PO Box 1323;Tulsa;OK;74101-1323;USA version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Chief Solutionist/President x-mozilla-cpt:;19888 fn:Bret Hughes end:vcard
