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Subject: Re: Changing the font w/ lpr?
From: Fritz Wuehler
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pH <wNOSP...@gmail.org> [p]:
p> I like to write my letters using jstar and then print them like so:
p>
p> pr -o4 -t myfile | lpr
p>
p> I'd really like to change it to 12 pitch at the least

Assuming that your printer driver can handle postscript, try enscript
with a fixed width font:

pr -o4 -t myfile | enscript --font Courier@12 -B | lpr

If your printer doesn't speak postscript, but does speak PDF,
just add another step to the above pipe:

pr -o4 -t myfile | enscript --font Times-Roman@12 -B | ps2pdf - - | lpr

Subject: Re: Changing the font w/ lpr?
From: pH
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On 2024-12-16, Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-202412.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> wrote:
> pH <wNOSP...@gmail.org> [p]:
> p> I like to write my letters using jstar and then print them like so:
> p>
> p> pr -o4 -t myfile | lpr
> p>
> p> I'd really like to change it to 12 pitch at the least
>
> Assuming that your printer driver can handle postscript, try enscript
> with a fixed width font:
>
> pr -o4 -t myfile | enscript --font Courier@12 -B | lpr
>
> If your printer doesn't speak postscript, but does speak PDF,
> just add another step to the above pipe:
>
> pr -o4 -t myfile | enscript --font Times-Roman@12 -B | ps2pdf - - | lpr
>

Works like a charm...I'm in business. I didn't even have to use 'pr' or
'lpr'

enscript --font Times-Roman@12 -B myfile_to_print

worked fine.

Thanks, everyone.

Subject	Author
Re: Changing the font w/ lpr?	Fritz Wuehler
Re: Changing the font w/ lpr?	pH