a2ps problem while postscript translation

Ashish K Singh6 <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Sep 2010 19:21:34 +0530
Newsgroups gmane.comp.printing.a2ps.bugs
Message-ID <OF8AAD9120.0D5CDCE0-ON65257798.00483540-65257798.004C3790@in.ibm.com>
Hello Team,

We have one problem while migrating from Solaris to SUSE Linux ES.This is
regarding postprint which we have as a command in Solaris.
Our motive is to get a command which takes font-name as a parameter.

In Solaris:
postprint - PostScript translator for text files
     -f name
           Print files using font name. Any PostScript  font  can
           be  used,  although  the best results will be obtained
           only with constant width fonts. The  default  font  is
           Courier.

${PS_LIB}/postprint -f II-Invoice -l 86 -s 10 -x 0 -y -0.15 $input_file >
$work_file       <---------here I-Invoice is the font name

In SUSE Linux we found:

a2ps - format files for printing on a PostScript printer
  -f, --font-size=SIZE
              use font SIZE (float) for the body text

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Our request from you is:

1) Please advice if we are at the right replacement ("a2ps" =SUSE) of
postprint (Solaris).
2) If answer of (1) is YES please provide the SUSE equivalent option in
a2ps of postprint's "-f".
3) If answer of (1) is NO, then suggest the correct command for this
translation.


Thanks & Regards,
   Ashish
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