[GRASS5] new scripts for GRASS 5.7 - png output
Michael Barton
michael.barton at asu.edu
Tue Apr 6 13:48:15 EDT 2004
On Tuesday, April 6, 2004, at 01:10 AM, Glynn Clements wrote:
> The print command (which appears to default to "lpr") needs to accept
> a PostScript stream. You may need to use "lpr -P<printer>" to select a
> PostScript "printer" (i.e. a virtual printer, which is actually a
> Ghostscript command which converts PostScript into a format which your
> printer understands).
>
> Start by generating a PostScript file which you can view successfully
> using Ghostscript (either directly or via e.g. "gv"). Then figure out
> a command which will print that file when it is supplied on stdin.
Couldn't (and shouldn't) this be done by the print dialog program?
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