Greetings,
Thank you to the Fedora team for the F34 roll-out; upgrades were seamless: seemingly a trend not an anomoly.
I'm a paps users (paps is a PostScript converter from plain text file using Pango), having at one time used enscript.
My general CLI invocation has been: paps --columns=3 --landscape --paper=letter --font="Arial 6" /tmp/x3 | lpr -P lp3
This is generally sent to an HP53xx printer. /tmp/x3 is just a temporary text file copied from somewhere else.
With the F34 upgrade, the output is a little uneven in print quality as far as the fonts are concerned.
I've tried changing the "Arial 6" to "Serif 6", then to "Sans 6"
The last seems to be satifactory. The goal here is to print text files of from a variety of sources: code, essays, articles, etc., in a compact space to read. Not so much to print publication-quality stuff.
I would be interested in suggestions from other paps users on their preferred
Much thanks,
Max Pyziur pyz@brama.com
On Friday, April 30, 2021 12:45:40 PM EDT Max Pyziur wrote:
I would be interested in suggestions from other paps users on their preferred
Heh. Never tried this program before. I always use a2ps instead. But...
I tried --font="monospace 6" --columns=2 for code and it's very readable. Nicer than a2ps, if not as fancy. The font is denser or darker than a2ps (defaults).
On Fri, 30 Apr 2021, Garry T. Williams wrote:
On Friday, April 30, 2021 12:45:40 PM EDT Max Pyziur wrote:
I would be interested in suggestions from other paps users on their preferred
Heh. Never tried this program before. I always use a2ps instead. But...
I tried --font="monospace 6" --columns=2 for code and it's very readable. Nicer than a2ps, if not as fancy. The font is denser or darker than a2ps (defaults).
The output for that is better for the use of the keyword "monospace" than for the one that I specified under F34.
So, I tried a generic keyword and used --font="proportional 6" and the result was of a lesser quality than for using "monospace" or the better results I had under F33.
Are there font packages that were removed on the upgrade?
Or are there proportional postscript font packages that I should install for the level of quality I had with F33.
The output now is that using something like --font="proportional 6" or --font="Arial 6" is that it is uneven both vertically and horizontally: - vertically: the line spacking is irregular - horizontally: while proportional, some letters crwod each other or even occasionally overlap.
Much thanks in advance,
Max pyz@brama.com
On Sat, 1 May 2021 at 23:21, Max Pyziur pyz@brama.com wrote:
On Fri, 30 Apr 2021, Garry T. Williams wrote:
On Friday, April 30, 2021 12:45:40 PM EDT Max Pyziur wrote:
I would be interested in suggestions from other paps users on their preferred
Heh. Never tried this program before. I always use a2ps instead. But...
I tried --font="monospace 6" --columns=2 for code and it's very readable. Nicer than a2ps, if not as fancy. The font is denser or darker than a2ps (defaults).
The output for that is better for the use of the keyword "monospace" than for the one that I specified under F34.
So, I tried a generic keyword and used --font="proportional 6" and the result was of a lesser quality than for using "monospace" or the better results I had under F33.
Are there font packages that were removed on the upgrade?
Or are there proportional postscript font packages that I should install for the level of quality I had with F33.
The output now is that using something like --font="proportional 6" or --font="Arial 6" is that it is uneven both vertically and horizontally:
- vertically: the line spacking is irregular
- horizontally: while proportional, some letters crwod each other or
even occasionally overlap.
The postscript code generated by paps and it includes outline paths for the glyphs, so it does not provide the benefits of high quality font rendering.
u2ps https://github.com/arsv/u2ps "is [sic] text to postscript converter similar to a2ps, with emphasis on Unicode support. "
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Max Pyziur