RE: configuration help: 132 char on portrait letter

[John . Prokopek]

Okay, here's the deal, you cannot specify both characters per line AND 
rows per page. 
a2ps probably cannot find a font to fit the bill. So pick one. Most 
likely you'll want
the chars-per-line to prevent wrapping. So the command to use would be:

a2ps --chars-per-line=132 -R --medium=Letter --columns=1 --rows=1 
filename

I am not sure if the --rows=1 is needed. The --medium is needed if 
Letter is 
not the default medium. The default is A4 unless you compiled a2ps 
yourself
and specified Letter during the configuration phase.


cheers and happy printing.



-----Original Message-----
From: spq 
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 8:39 PM
To: a2ps
Cc: spq
Subject: configuration help: 132 char on portrait letter


I need to configure a 132 char by 60 line greenbar paper printout to 
print 
on 8.5 x 11 letter paper 1 input page to 1 output page portrait 
orientation.

Can anyone help me get this configuration right? I have it working with 
landscape, but the boss would like it portrait. We used to do this on 
an 
HPLJ5 using PCL. We are now using a PS only printer and need this to 
work.

Patrick Quarterman
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