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From: simon at ccomms dot demon dot co dot uk (Simon Hobson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: Re: text2post - changing default font size?
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 12:14:15 +0000
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In article <B0DM5.523$dy7.559237301@news2.pvt.primus.ca>,
"Dean Northam" <alltemp@globalserve.net> wrote:

>Does anyone know if it is possible in sco openserver 5.05v3.24 to change the
>size of the fonts (and possible the lines per inch) using the text2post
>filter??? Trying to get the font and line counts to match a dot matrix
>printer.

I sat down a while ago and made some MAJOR changes to the SCO postscript
filter, just as you I wanted to effectively have 'laser lineprinters'.

I found some problems with the form feed processing (any text immediately
after a form feed was not printed) which I fixed, and added the option of
passing command line options for font, fontsize, line spacing, top and left
margins etc. I also added support for printer specific options such as
duplexing, hole punching, and stapling - my nearest laser printer happens
to be a Minolta 62ppm digital copier with ALL the trimmings ;-))

The code segment below shows how I fixed the form-feed problem :

port_proc()
{
awkprog="BEGIN { line=1 }
        (line>$LPP)    { line=1; print \"Page\" }
        /\f/           { nff=split(\$0, lines, \"^L\")
                         for (i=1; i<nff; i++) {
                           print \"(\" lines[i] \") Line\" ;
                           print \"Page\"; line=1 }
                         print \"(\" lines[nff] \") Line\" ; line++ ;
                         next }
                       { print \"(\" \$0 \") Line\"; line++ }
        END            { print \"%%Trailer\"; print \"pagedirty {showpage}
if gr
estore\" } "

expand | sed 's/[\\()]/\\&/g' | $IPFILTER | awk "$awkprog"
echo "grestore"
}

I can email you the whole file if you wish, just drop me a line at
shobson@colony.com

Simon

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