Print to file

[Schmutz Andre]

Hello !

I would like to setup a printer on a HP-UX 10.20 which will create a postcript (or a pdf) file in a specified (user may change it when printing) directory.

Your help will be appreciated !

AndrT Schmutz.

[John Palmer · Accepted solution]

One possibility:-

setup a print queue based on the standard interface script 'dumbplot'.

Edit /etc/lp/interface/ as appropriate to do whatever you want with the file that has been lp'd

Use the -o flag of the lp command to specify the alternate directory or output file or whatever. You can do what you like with this argument.

[Thomas Schler_1]

If the only purpose is to create a PostScript
file, I recommend to use a2ps instead of
the printing command. a2ps comes with options
to have control on the outlook of the
PostScript document.

a2ps can be found on
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/, the PD software
archive of HP.