Re: Text File Prints at Physical Page Boundary

[Juergen Fiedler]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 04:23:17PM -0400, Gil Citro wrote:
[...] 
 My problem is I want to print a plain text file from the command line,
 but when I give the command lpr file or lp file the output starts
 at the physical page boundary,   and since the printer can't print to
 the physical page boundary, some of the output is cut off.   I've
 always just used lpr to print text files under Unix, but am new to
 Debian.  Is there another way to print text files with an appropriate
 margin?  Thanks.

When it comes to printing plain text files with some basic formatting
(like reasonable margins), I tend to rely on enscript. It's even
available as a .deb
 
Good luck!
 --j


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Re: Text File Prints at Physical Page Boundary

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Gil Citro wrote:

[...]
My problem is I want to print a plain text file from the command line,
but when I give the command lpr file or lp file the output starts
at the physical page boundary,   and since the printer can't print to
the physical page boundary, some of the output is cut off. [...]


Send the text through the pr(1) command:
$ pr -o 4 -W 72 filename.txt | lpr

In the old days of lpr, I think I remember creating a /etc/printcap that 
did this semi-automatically, so that I could do this:


$ lpr -Ptxt filename.txt

You can also use apsfilter which will auto-detect the file type and send 
it to the right processing program before printing.



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