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Notice that such a function is usually located in the printers (or, more precisely, the printer queues) backend and you are - by trying to do what you do - second-guessing the work of it. Chances are this might get filtered out in the processing the printer driver does after you send it to the queue.
Some historical background on where that mattered: you probably know that the line-feed sequence in UNIX is a "linefeed" character, whereas in DOS/Windoze it is a carriage-return plus a linefeed. The reason is: (dot-matrix) printers worked this way, the carriage-return moved the printing head back to the left side and the linefeed move the paper upwards. It was quite like the mechanical and electrical typewriters that preceeded printers. By having this sequence as a end-of-line sequence the makers of DOS could forego the necessity to write a printer driver for their OS. UNIX, on the other hand, had printer drivers and therefore didn't need a two-character sequence. Therefore it had (and has, up to this day) a one-character EOL sequence which is in turn changed to a CR+LF if you print something to one of these old dot-matrix printers with endless paper.
Now, consider what that would do to your print job if you would mess around with the EOL sequence yourself: most probably not what you wanted to have because between your artificially inserted characters and them being processed (and turned into something maybe completely different) by the driver the printer might get confused over the result.
My suggestion is: use a "high-level" document language (i.e. Postscript, TeX, PDF, ....) to create your report. You can easily force form-feeds (or, repectively, their equivalent) within these languages because the all have that. Then use a driver for the respective language (in fact there are even natively-capable Postscript printers) to process your generated file into a correct print job. This way you are save from unknown (and unwanted) side effects and furthermore you are not bound to a specific printer model. All the mentioned languages are quasi-standards and you can easily swap one i.e. Postscript-capable printer for another Postscript-capable printer and the printed result will guaranteed to look the same.
I hope this helps.
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NAME
kate - Advanced text editor for KDE
SYNOPSIS
kate [-s, --start name] [-u, --use] [-p, --pid pid] [-e, --encoding name] [-l, --line line] [-c, --column column] [-i, --stdin]
[KDE Generic Options] [Qt Generic Options]
DESCRIPTION
Kate is the KDE Advanced Text Editor.
Kate also provides the editor part for various applications, under the name KWrite.
Some of Kate's many features include configurable syntax highlighting for languages ranging from C and C++ to HTML to bash scripts, the
ability to create and maintain projects, a multiple document interface (MDI), and a self-contained terminal emulator.
But Kate is more than a programmer's editor. Its ability to open several files at once makes it ideal for editing UNIX(R)'s many configura-
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OPTIONS
-s, --start name
Start Kate with a given session.
-u, --use
Use an already running Kate
-p, --pid pid
Only try to reuse kate instance with this pid
-e, --encoding name
Set encoding for the file to open
You can use this to force a file opened in utf-8 format, for instance. (The command iconv -l provides a list of encodings, which may
be helpful to you.)
-l, --line line
Navigate to this line
-c, --column column
Navigate to this column
-i, --stdin
Read the contents of stdin
SEE ALSO
More detailed user documentation is available from help:/kate (either enter this URL into Konqueror, or run khelpcenter help:/kate).
There is also further information available at the Kate website: http://kate.kde.org/.
EXAMPLES
To open a file named source.cpp at column 15, line 25, in an existing Kate window, you could use:
kate -c 15 -l 25 -u source.cpp
If you have an active internet connection, you can take advantage of KDE's network transparency to open a file from an ftp site. If you do
not have write permission on the remote server, the file will be opened read only and you will be prompted for a local filename to save to
if you make changes. If you do have write permission, changes will be saved transparently over the network.
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AUTHORS
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