Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!hardy From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers Subject: Re: Wanted: Unix program to output to LJII (graphics/X-Windows) Message-ID: Date: 15 Jun 91 20:20:22 GMT References: <25466@well.sf.ca.us> Organization: University of California, Irvine, USA. Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: golem.ps.uci.edu In-reply-to: nlane@well.sf.ca.us's message of 15 Jun 91 04:46:55 GMT If you are using an xterm in tektronix mode, xwd piped to xpr (with the appropriate setting -device ljet ) will do a very nice job on any PCL printer. I use a script like: #! /bin/csh xwd > ~/tmp/xl$$.wd echo xwd finished xpr -device ljet -density 150 ~/tmp/xl$$.wd > ~/tmp/xl$$.pcl echo xpr finished lp -oraw -ddeskjet -onb ~/tmp/xl$$.pcl echo lp finished /bin/rm ~/tmp/xl$$.* To print on a deskjet. Greetings, Hardy -------****------- Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy); Department of Physics, University of California Irvine CA 92717; (714) 856 5543; hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET