Re: flexfax: Tiff Viewer

[Carsten Hoeger <choeger@suse.de>]

On Thu, Dec 03, Damian A Ivereigh wrote:

> If your printer doesn't support postscript, then yes indeed you will
> have to use ghostscript to convert it to another printer language like
> PCL.
> 
> First run:-
> 
> ghostscript -h
> 
> This will give you a list of devices (among other things) that it
> supports. Then use
> 
> ghostscript -dDEVICE=<some device> somefile.ps
> 
> Pipe the output of that into the printer.

tiff2ps -p -a $FILE | ps2pdf - /tmp/pdf.pdf |lpr

should work.

ps2pdf can be found at gs_lib-4.03

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mfG,
	Carsten Hoeger

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