Re: Re: How to create a margin when printing?

Joe,

Wow, that's a lot of parameters.. I'd never tried all of that. I just 
use:

   a2ps -R --columns=1  [ gives portrait, one column]

and I have no problem with margins, etc.

I DO wish I could make that command 'stick,' i.e., be my default print 
command.  I've tried using Setup-Printer-Custom... to no avail.  I'm sure 
I'm just missing some simple instructions ;-)

TIA, Brian


On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:

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> It would appear that on Aug 21, Brian Spindel did say:
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>> Bill,
>>
>> I use utility 'a2ps' to print messages with a nice margin (and message title and page numbers).  See links for more:
>
> Wow! I don't know why I hadn't checked out a2ps before. I was about to
> suggest using pr to prettyprint pine messages but a2ps is a more
> powerful tool. Though it took a bit of reading to figure out how to get
> anything like the output I wanted...
>
> What I can't seam to find however is a way to suppress the the printing
> of an additional page with one line such as:
>
> request id is hp5650-227 (1 file(s))
>
> Which I don't get when I use pr... Would you happen to know how to ditch
> the request id info page???
>
> Otherwise I get fairly good results from:
>
> a2ps -1 -b"" -q --margin=13 --left-title=%E --center-title="pine via a2ps" --right-title="( page %p. of %p# )"|lpr -P hp5650
>
> I use -b"" instead of -B to suppress the sheet header line that defaults
> to "printed by" because -B caused the bottom border line to miss the
> printable part of the paper! ???
>
> I probably should ditch the -q as "-q, --quiet, --silent" doesn't
> suppress that follow up request id info page. <sigh>
>
> I used "pine via a2ps" because I couldn't figure out how you get an actual
> message title in the header. (If you mean you get pine to insert the
> text of the Subject: header line into the a2ps command it probably
> wouldn't fit half the time unless I moved the date and page numbers to
> page footers. But it'd be worth it if I knew how.)
>
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