[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-user] need help with mac os x installation

[Michael Barton]

On 9/6/07 1:08 PM, "William Kyngesburye" <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:

> Ah, got it on the first try (Color Laserjet 8550).  I used:
> 
> lpr -o position=center mapout.ps

I tried that first and it didn't work. So I added the margin settings, which
equally did nothing. This suggests to me that the problems might well be in
my printer and setup. This will make it very difficult to test any updates
to the mapprint.tcl module.

If I make a change (I think I'll just use the -o position-center setting
like you did) and send the file to you, can you drop it in and try it out?

Michael

> 
> I figured that the left/right/top/bottom params were unnecessary
> since the center param would set those implicitly.
> 
> When I opened it in Preview, the message about converting PS to PDF
> tells me that that is probably why it works from Preview to the Epson
> - the Epson drivers, or maybe CUPS, can render PDF (the core of the
> OSX display system, and much if not all of the printing, is PDF-
> based).  And many modern printers support PDF natively.
> 
> Maybe if you can generate a PDF from Tcl and pass that to lpr?
> 
> Or look at that Gimp/Guten-print driver for your Epson.
> 
> On Sep 6, 2007, at 2:34 PM, Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>> William,
>> 
>> I've put the PS map into
>> . Let me know if
>> you can get it to print nicely on your HP.
>> 
>> Michael
> 
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> 
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> 
> 

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