SOLVED: apsfilter and margins
Eric F Crist
ecrist at adtechintegrated.com
Thu Feb 19 22:48:24 PST 2004
Here's a little howto for those of you who are having problems with faulty
margins with apsfilter. I'm personally using a Brother HL-1440, but the
general idea still applies to all printers.
1) Edit the file /usr/local/share/gho.stscript/7.07/lib/align.ps and add %! on
a line by itself, before anything else.
2) type lpr /usr/local/share/ghostscript/7.07/lib/align.ps and you will get a
page that has two lines, intersecting in the lower left corner.
3) Follow the instructions on the page that prints to compute the numbers you
need to enter.
4) Create a file called /etc/margins.ps that contains the following:
%!
<< /.HWMargins [18 0 18 0] /Margins [0 -90] >> setpagedevice
Your numbers will vary from mine. This is for a Brother HL-1440 Laser
printer. (The bottom margin on mine is very low on the page, but I don't
loose any text. Changing the bottom value seems to cut off text.)
Make certain that this file is world readable.
#chmod a+r /etc/margins.ps
5) Edit the file /usr/local/etc/apsfilter/apsfilterrc and find the line near
the bottom containing PS_INIT (currently commented out).
6) Uncomment the line and change it to read:
PS_INIT=/etc/margins.ps
7) Print a test page! Play with those numbers in the /etc/margins.ps file
until you get the margins you're looking for. You do not need to restart lpd
in order for changes to take effect.
Hope you all enjoy this!
--
Eric F Crist
AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc
(612) 998-3588
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