RE: [h-e-w] [OT] a2ps

[Harmon, Tony T]

I may have missed some of the conversation on this since, I seemed to have screwed up my subscription. I only got the confirmation today. So if there was some other messages, could you re-send them to this address? Thanks.

Anyway, That really isn't an option for us. We have set up a 'portal' the view the reports via the web, and the direction decided on was to use pdf. I originally just wanted to use Ghostscript, but I do not have the authority to make that decision, and was over-ruled.

Is there a reason that a2ps is ignoring my parm --margin=2 ?

Thanks,
Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Bowen [mailto:address@hidden]
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 8:06 AM
To: 'Harmon, Tony T'
Subject: RE: [h-e-w] [OT] a2ps

I hesitate to suggest that you install and use Ghostscript instead of a2ps +
distiller. You could do the job in one operation instead of 2. It may also
be better able to handle the margins etc.
 
Ghostscript should be available for AIX from most GNU mirrors.
 
Hope this helps.
 
Jeremy
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Harmon, Tony T [mailto:address@hidden]
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 8:36 PM
To: 'emacs'
Subject: [h-e-w] [OT] a2ps

All,

Sorry for the off-topic message, but I need some serious help. We are
ftp'ing reports to the mainframe, I have a Korn shell script that invokes
a2ps to convert them to postscript format then I invoke distiller which is
an Adobe product that converts it to pdf format. (This is all running on AIX
4.3.3 btw) Anyway, we can't seem to get rid of the margins, and the damn
thing appears to truncate longer reports: So, does anyone happen to know of
a a2ps discussion group or anything? I've looked through www.gnu.org about a
million times but I can't find anything. (Oh, and our version of a2ps is
4.10.3)

Thanks,
Tony Harmon

(785)435-2419

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