From 76db7e810f49bf968889d9d99cae69cfe33f43c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marc Fonvieille Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:51:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] - Add some missing application tags and entities; - Mention print/ghostscript-gpl as the commonly used version of gs(1). --- .../books/handbook/printing/chapter.sgml | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing/chapter.sgml index 0e111a5091..542eebdf76 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing/chapter.sgml @@ -1850,28 +1850,29 @@ fi expensive standard. Thankfully, Aladdin Enterprises has a free &postscript; work-alike called Ghostscript that runs with FreeBSD. - Ghostscript can read most &postscript; files and can render their + Ghostscript can read most &postscript; files and can render their pages onto a variety of devices, including many brands of - non-PostScript printers. By installing Ghostscript and using a + non-&postscript; printers. By installing Ghostscript and using a special text filter for your printer, you can make your non &postscript; printer act like a real &postscript; printer. - Ghostscript is in the FreeBSD Ports Collection, if you - would like to install it from there. You can fetch, build, and - install it quite easily yourself, as well. + Ghostscript is in the FreeBSD Ports Collection, + many versions are available, the most commonly used version + is print/ghostscript-gpl. To simulate &postscript;, we have the text filter detect if it is printing a &postscript; file. If it is not, then the filter will pass - the file directly to the printer; otherwise, it will use Ghostscript + the file directly to the printer; otherwise, it will use Ghostscript to first convert the file into a format the printer will understand. Here is an example: the following script is a text filter for Hewlett Packard DeskJet 500 printers. For other printers, substitute the argument to the - gs (Ghostscript) command. (Type gs + gs (Ghostscript) command. (Type gs -h to get a list of devices the current installation of - Ghostscript supports.) + Ghostscript supports.) #!/bin/sh #