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From: dag@fciva.FRANKLIN.COM (Daniel A. Graifer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: lp filter for PostScript printers
Keywords: lp, PostScript, filter
Message-ID: <497@fciva.FRANKLIN.COM>
Date: 25 Oct 89 14:51:50 GMT
References: <188@softest.UUCP>
Reply-To: dag@fciva.UUCP (Daniel A. Graifer)
Organization: Franklin Capital Investments, Inc. McLean, Va.
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In article <188@softest.UUCP> daves@softest.UUCP (Dave Schneider) writes:
>Does anyone have an "lp" filter for PostScript printers that
>changes ascii to PostScript and offers access to other PostScript
>features such as landscape, font and size selection....?

Our Prime EXL's came with such a beast, but I've also rolled my own as follows:

Find a piece of DOS or unix software that minimally supports postscript, and 
trap some of it's printer output in a file.  This will usually be a poscript 
program to emulate some kind of simple printer.  I snarfed the one from
Javelin.  Write a simple interface script that normally prepends this file to
all output unless the "POST" option is specified.  The latter will pass thru
output from postscript knowledgable software untouched.

Dan.