Hi, I'm trying to work out how to print out ascii text files, in 2 side-by-side pages on a sigle letter sheet in landscape mode. Things seem to work, except that the landscape printout, is coming out in portrait on the printer, and the rightpage is just "squeezed off" to the right side. So it looks OK, except the printer isn't switching the paper to landscape. I have a HP Deskjet 930C The commands I'm using are these: a2ps --landscape -P lp myfile.txt How do I tell a2ps to use landscape? If I print from OpenOffice the printer does it right, so I know that it's not the printer. a2ps has a nicer looking printout though. :-) -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:21, zentara wrote:
Hi, I'm trying to work out how to print out ascii text files, in 2 side-by-side pages on a sigle letter sheet in landscape mode.
Things seem to work, except that the landscape printout, is coming out in portrait on the printer, and the rightpage is just "squeezed off" to the right side.
So it looks OK, except the printer isn't switching the paper to landscape.
I have a HP Deskjet 930C
The commands I'm using are these:
a2ps --landscape -P lp myfile.txt
How do I tell a2ps to use landscape?
If I print from OpenOffice the printer does it right, so I know that it's not the printer. a2ps has a nicer looking printout though. :-)
Hi, If you are using SuSE 8.1 there is a bug in cups, please refer to http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/jsmeix_print-cups-landscape-81.html You may have better success using this version of Cups. http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/jsmeix_print-cups-testversion-81.html -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------
2 issues: 1) when I boot on 1 computer, the 'hardware scan' process takes about 1 minute. when I moove that drive to another computer (removable IDE drive rack) this does not happen. Shoud I/How do I block the hardware scan? 2) After running 8.0 for over an hour, it slows down. Excessive disk thrashing. It takes 1 min 38 seconds to load Kpat (freecell for linux). vs. 27 seconds after a couple of minutes (while on net with mai/browser open. Is this a swap issue? 3) I need tar to open a xbasic download. It's not on my computer! find / -iname tar responds with nothing. I thought this was a basic command, now I worried as to what else is gone/missing. Help . . .
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 10:20 pm, John Sowden wrote:
2 issues:
1) when I boot on 1 computer, the 'hardware scan' process takes about 1 minute. when I moove that drive to another computer (removable IDE drive rack) this does not happen. Shoud I/How do I block the hardware scan?
Hardware scan is not only specific to disks. Its scanning for new or changed hardware. You can go to yast runlevel editor and shut it off. However, if you have swapable drives it sounds like you are the kind of user it was designed for,
2) After running 8.0 for over an hour, it slows down. Excessive disk thrashing. It takes 1 min 38 seconds to load Kpat (freecell for linux). vs. 27 seconds after a couple of minutes (while on net with mai/browser open. Is this a swap issue?
Probably. Are you sure your swap is mounted? man swapon
3) I need tar to open a xbasic download. It's not on my computer! find / -iname tar responds with nothing. I thought this was a basic command, now I worried as to what else is gone/missing.
Install it and move on. Its on the CDs... -- _________________________________________________ John Andersen / Juneau Alaska
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