Re: Changing the font w/ lpr?

On 2024-12-16, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:

pH wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
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Hi folks.
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I like to write my letters using jstar and then print them
like so:
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pr -o4 -t myfile | lpr
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After I see the pretty print I can do w/ libreoffice the plain old
10 pitch lineprinter font is kind of clunky.
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I'd really like to change it to 12 pitch at the least.  I'm a long time
WordStar devotee and want to stick w/ good old jstar.
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I use LO when it seems the thing to do as when I want to embed photos in the
text but....
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I've not see how/where to change the default pitch for lpr to use.
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Thanks.
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Pureheart in Aptos

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Check out the command-line program "enscript". Here's a line from a script I
wrote years ago, to print out a C/C++ file:
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    enscript -P lp0 --media=Letter --landscape --truncate-lines

     --font="LucidaTypewriter7" --columns=2 $1

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That's for a basic plaintext file, though.
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Yes, it looks like "enscript" will be my saviour.  I now have to experiment
with the font names I have available...the one I was thinking of has spaces
in the name so I tried the double quotes and got a NULL result, printed fine
w/ the default type .  I was using the -f toggle, perhaps I'll try the
--font=.

In any case, looks like enscript will do the trick for me.

pH in Aptos