lpr font

[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.


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