lp

[Danny Crisp]

Are there any options using lp (if any) to rotate sheet, fit to page etc....

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Those options are specific to the interface file that the print queue uses. The hp convention is to use the -o options lp argument to display the options or direct you to the appropriate man page.

e.g.

echo "Test" | lp -dmyprinter -o options

will print a list of option -- if the interface file conforms to HP conventions.

In general the answer to your question is no. Print formatting in UNIX is the responsibility of the application.

[Jeff_Traigle]

Depends on the model script you're using. (Printers set up as "remote" printers will not give you the option.) If the script supports it, "-o portrait" and "-o landscape" will ritate the pages. Don't know of any fit-to-page option. Not documented anywhere since it's model script dependent. You just have to look through the script and see what's available.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

By the way, the best product I have found to do the kinds of things that you describe is Unform (www.unform.com).

[Bill Hassell]

The lp command in HP-UX has a simple script that can do primitive formatting of ASCII text. So if the printer is either directly connected, or connected through a proprietary HP JetDirect LAN card, there are several options that can rotate text, change the font, change the spacing, etc. But fit-to-page is an enormously complex task. It requires analyzing the entire print job as to content, then adjusting the font to make the page fit. And even then, it would be limited to simple text--graphic images would be far too complex without a specialized formatting subsystem.

[Mark Greene_1]

If the files in questions are PostScript or are going to a PostScript-enabled printer, you can download Ghostscript:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/PostScript/ghostscript-7.07b/

You can use GS to convert from PCL to PostScript as well.

mark

[Danny Crisp]

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