lpr font

[Timothy Murphy]

Is there a simple way of changing the font used by lpr
to print out a text file,
after say "lpr foo.txt" on a Fedora-18 CUPS printer?

The font in my case is much too small for my eyesight.
Any suggestions or advice gratefully received.

[Terry Polzin]

On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 19:57 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Is there a simple way of changing the font used by lpr
> to print out a text file,
> after say "lpr foo.txt" on a Fedora-18 CUPS printer?
>
> The font in my case is much too small for my eyesight.
> Any suggestions or advice gratefully received.
>
> -- 
> Timothy Murphy  
> e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
> tel: [phone]
> s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin

a2ps may help you just need a postscript printer.

[Timothy Murphy]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Is there a simple way of changing the font used by lpr
> to print out a text file,
> after say "lpr foo.txt" on a Fedora-18 CUPS printer?
>
> The font in my case is much too small for my eyesight.
> Any suggestions or advice gratefully received.

To follow up to myself, I see I can say eg

lp -o cpi=10 -o lpi=6 Fagan.txt

But I'd still be interested in using a bold font,
if that is possible.

[Timothy Murphy]

Terry Polzin wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 19:57 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > Is there a simple way of changing the font used by lpr
> > to print out a text file,
> > after say "lpr foo.txt" on a Fedora-18 CUPS printer?
> 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.

[Joachim Backes]

On 05/29/2013 10:07 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Terry Polzin wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 19:57 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > > Is there a simple way of changing the font used by lpr
> > > to print out a text file,
> > > after say "lpr foo.txt" on a Fedora-18 CUPS printer?
> > 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"

Kind regards

Joachim Backes

[Timothy Murphy]

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.