Re: How to print?

[Harring Figueiredo <harringf yahoo com>]

 Sorry to get a ride on this thread -- 

  Nix,

  Do you know where I could get such type of information for printing on
Windows.

  Thanks.
Harring


--- Nix <nix go-nix ca> wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 01:16, Daniel Miralles García wrote:
>
> > (I wish it was any "dos-like" way to print something...
>
> The short answer is "no".
>
> Unlike DOS, Linux & Co. actually have a security infrastructure. Thus,
> unless you own (or have write permissions to) /dev/lp0 or
> /dev/printers/0, you cannot print to these files.  These would be the
> special files to print to in DOS-like fashion.
>
> The only courses of action are to either open up /dev/lp0 or
> /dev/printers/0 by setting permissions to 1777 (a security DISASTER) or
> installing a print manager such as cups or lprng.  However, this latter
> is, in fact, what you call "installing" the printer so, like I said,
> there is "no" way to do it without "installing" the printer.
>
> Once the printer is installed, however, you can print simply by calling
> system ("lpr /path/to/filename.txt") where filename.txt contains the
> text you want to see printed.
>
> To print curves and fancy fonts, you need to learn PostScript.  Then you
> create a simple text file called "filename.ps" and fill it with
> PostScript code.
>
> Learning PostScript is not difficult.  It's basically a language that
> consists of statements like "draw arc here".  I found an excellent
> reference at
>
> http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/PSgeneral.html
>
> > From that page, you want to download the "Red Book", the "Green Book"
> and the "Blue Book".  These are PostScript references issued by Adobe
> themselves.  They are quite detailed and easy to read, with lots of
> examples.
>
> Printing a postscript document is the same as printing a text document:
> system ("lpr filename.ps") .
>
> HTH
>
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