Gedit and Printing

[Robert Meyer]

--- Asheville Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
> Well, it almost works.  Maybe someone can help me on this:
> When I do
> print file.txt
> or
> cat file.txt | print
> 
> it works fine.  I think this is because the files are text files.
> When I tell gedit to use print, I think it's converting the file to 
> postscript before it sends it to print.  When print gets it, it passes 
> it to enscript.  enscript takes a look at it and says (-Z option) leave 
> this alone and prints it without any of the enscript features I want.  
> But, if I turn off -Z, the raw postscript goes to the printer (not good 
> ;) )!  So there's something else about printing I need to understand.  
> Any ideas?

Don't use gedit :-).  Gedit will only print postscript.  It has no way to send
plain text to the printer.  I'd find a different editor if you're going to be
doing a lot of this.

Cheers!

Bob

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