[Pine-info] Re: How to create a margin when printing?

[Bert Driehuis]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:


> What I can't seam to find however is a way to suppress the the printing

> of an additional page with one line such as:

>

> request id is hp5650-227 (1 file(s))

>

> Which I don't get when I use pr... Would you happen to know how to ditch

> the request id info page???


Try adding ":sh:" to the /etc/printcap entry for hp5650, or adding the 
'-h' option to your invocation of lpr.

I had to look this up in the manual because I've been lugging around my 
printcap ever since 1993, changing only the rm and rp options around, 
so I haven't had to use -h for thirteen years straight now (before 
that, I didn't have Berkeley lpr).

As to making your a2ps options stick, why not use a small script that 
you can stick in your path? I rummaged around for an simple example but 
only found this rather elaborate gizmo (see attached).

I'm not even sure it worked when I last used it, I rarely print e-mail 
these days... The Postscript magic (the three echos) switch a Postscript 
printer into duplex-print mode, then nenscript formats it nicely, then 
psbook and psnup rearrange the pages so that you only have to fold the 
printed stack to get a booklet. The black magic with tr is to make sure 
even the dumbest print spoolers recognise the print job as Postscript (I 
don't recall if it was Xerox, HP or Nashuatec that got it wrong, but 
PostScript printed as plaintext makes for boring reading).

psutils and nenscript are part of the ports collection on FreeBSD, and 
are fairly common on Linux and Solaris too.

http://gershwin.ens.fr/vdaniel/Doc-Locale/Outils-Gnu-Linux/PsUtils/
http://www.risacher.org/nenscript/

When you find your formatted pages are running off the paper, are you 
sure your printer and all your software components are in agreement of 
the paper size? The behavior you describe used to be commonplace when a 
printer is loaded with A4 paper but configured for Letter size.

This was a trip down memory lane for grampa.
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#!/bin/sh

file=/var/tmp/$$.tmp
cat >$file
(  echo '%!PS-Adobe-1.0*' | tr "*" "\015"
   echo 'statusdict /setduplexmode known { statusdict begin true setduplexmode end } if'
   echo 'statusdict /settumble known { statusdict begin true settumble end } if'
   nenscript -G -p- $file | psbook | psnup -2
) | lpr
rm -f $file