Joachim Backes wrote:
a2ps may help you just need a postscript printer.
I did try that, but it seemed equally difficult to control, eg to print in larger or smaller font.
Use the a2ps options "-f", or the options "-1" .. "-9"
Thanks, I'll try that next time.
Incidentally, I found the problem with lpr in my case was that the file I was printing used \r\n for end-of-line (I guess it passed through a Windows system at some point) and lpr printed this with double-spacing. Dos2unix solved that problem.