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| sdf_ | sdfsdf | 09:31.13 |
| jpd | so I have a really old ghostscript currently driving a hp h470 inkjet with pcl3. One problem is that standard groff->ps->pcl3->a4 paper ends up losing the last few lines on the page. This doesn't happen with hand-crafted ascii with pcl3 commands to set the margin and printable length. | 14:18.44 |
| | is there a way to force ghostscript's pcl3 driver to set not just paper size but also printable size, and if so when was that introduced? | 14:19.50 |
| kens | To the best of my knowledge, no, there is no such option, though presumably it shoud be easy enough to add, I am not any kind of expert on PCL3 (which is very obselete) | 14:20.39 |
| | I doubt anyone has touched any PCL3 output device in years, possibly decades | 14:21.27 |
| jpd | so, quickest fix is then probably a filter that adds the requisite crud right behind an esc-E sequence or something. (I cannot easily recompile much of anything currently, but adding a filter to the Make chain is easy.) | 14:25.20 |
| | or possibly try and dive into pjl and see if I can set a preference or something. | 14:25.37 |
| kens | PJL might work. If you can't recompile then you can probably post-process the PCL outptu file, yes. | 14:26.13 |
| jpd | the printer isn't quite that obsolete, but one of the near-braindead "PCL3GUI" things. (it was free, as was the ink, what can I say.) | 14:27.13 |
| kens | :-) | 14:27.23 |
| jpd | alright, we'll see what happens next time I get around to tinkering with this then. thanks. | 14:29.45 |
| kens | NP | 14:29.57 |
| | good luck with it! | 14:30.03 |
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