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From: Thomas <twest9@verizon.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Need help setting up MacPro to prepare ps files for printing on HP PCL 3 printer (HP 6480)
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 12:23:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8972015B-C2B6-492A-820C-D4461E468139@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b921a4f818d40d92f018985dac7272b@quintile.net>

Following Steve's lead, I found this works :

9 grap plotfile | 9 pic | 9troff -mm | 9 tr2post   > plotfile.ps

lp plotfile.ps


The OS X lp does not convert postscript.

As far as I can see there is no plan9 lp.

Thanks, Steve

-Tom

On Apr 24, 2014, at 2:24 PM, Steve Simon wrote:

> I am no p9p expert, but on native plan9 you would do somthing like
>
> 	 lp -dstdout > plot.ps
>
> This will generate a postscript version. Again on plan9 this is converted
> on the fly by the lp printer subsystem into the apropriate form for your
> printer.
>
> You could add another step to generate a pdf if thats easier. -
>
> 	grap plotfile | pic | troff -mm | lp -dstdout | ps2pdf > plot.pdf
>
> hope this helps.
>
> -Steve
>
>




  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-28 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-24 17:39 Thomas
2014-04-24 18:24 ` Steve Simon
2014-04-28 16:23   ` Thomas [this message]
2014-04-28 16:55     ` Jeff Sickel
2014-04-30 15:34       ` Thomas
2014-05-01  9:47         ` stevie

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