Re: [Omniprint-user] Problem with HP-LaserJet_III

[Terry B. <te...@be...>]

Hi Mark,

I've tried changing hardCopyCapLeft but this only seems
to alter the clipping of the page on the right. No shift of the page is
performed.
The hardCopyCapBottom parameter does move the print up from the bottom
of the page. On our printer a shift to the left of about 6mm is required.
Does this need to be done within Ghostscript ?
Any Ideas ?

I would call the command line use of spaces as separators a feature and the
allowing of space in file names a bug :)
It is not only the shell but most unix tools such as make, sed, awk, grep etc
that
use the space character as a separator allowing a single string to contain a
list
of elements.
As a matter of interest what are the advantages of using spaces in file names
?

Cheers


Terry

Mark Hamzy wrote:

> Hey Terry,
>
> The values in the hard copy caps used to be in hundredths of a millimeter
> but were later expanded to be in
> thousandths of a millimeter to avoid conversion losses between inches and
> millimeters in form sizes.
> I have just updated docs/HowToCreateADevice.  Hopefully, that was the last
> place which referenced the old
> unit size.
>
> You are on the right track.  Please be aware of the DeviceTester program.
> If you call it as follows:
>      DeviceTester drawbox driver libHP_LaserJet_III.so cout output1.prn
> cerr output1.err && cp output1.prn /dev/lp0
>
> It will draw a box around the printable area of the page.  The right and
> bottom sides will have incremental lines
> to help determine how many pels are missing from the sides.
>
> Yeah, I know the spaces in file names causes problems, but I think that the
> advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
> I wish they would fix the bugs in the command line programs because space
> is a valid filename character.
>
> Mark
>
> Take a look at the Linux Omni printer driver at
> http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/omni/
>
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