lpr 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

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