ln03of(8) [ultrix man page]
ln03of(8) System Manager's Manual ln03of(8) Name ln03of - LN03(S) laser printer filter Syntax /usr/lib/lpdfilters/ln03of [-c] [-nlogin] [-hhost] [-wwidth] [-lnum] [-iindent] [accounting file] Description The filter is used to filter text data destined for the LN03 and LN03S laser printers. The filter handles the device dependencies of the printers and performs accounting functions. Accounting records are written to the file specified by the af field in at the time of comple- tion for each job. The filter can handle plain ASCII files and files that have been preprocessed by nroff. The filter translates nroff control sequences for underlining, superscripting, and subscripting into the correct LN03(S) control sequences. The filter can be the specified filter in both the of and the if fields in the file. For further information, see When both fields are specified the of filter is used only to print the banner page. It is then stopped to allow the if filter access to the printer. The if filter maintains accounting information. If the of field is the only one specified the filter is used to print the banner page. It is then stopped and restarted. This allows the of filter to be used to maintain accounting information. If the if field is the only one specified the banner page will be sent directly to the printer. If the printer has been left in an undeter- mined state the banner page may not print correctly. The best results will be obtained when the filter is specified in both the of and if fields. For a more detailed discussion on filters see the ``Line Printer Spooler Manual'' in the ULTRIX Supplementary Documents, Volume 2: Programmer. Options The arguments passed to the filter depend on its use. The of filter is called with the following arguments: ln03of -wwidth -llength The width and length values come from the pw and pl fields in the database. The if (or restarted of) filter is passed the following arguments: ln03of -c -nlogin -hhost -wwidth -lnum -iindent accounting file The -c flag is optional, and supplied only when control characters are to be printed, that is, when the -l option of is used to print the file. The -w and -l arguments are the same as for the of filter, however, they may have different values if the -w and/or -z options of were used to print the file. If the value of the width is greater than 80 the job will be printed in landscape mode with a slightly smaller font. The length of the page is assumed to be 66 regardless of the length specified. The -n and -h argu- ments specify the login name and host name of the job owner. These arguments are used to record accounting information. The -i option specifies the amount of indentation to be used. The last argument is the name of the accounting file specified from the af field in the database. Diagnostics The lf field (default /dev/null) in the database specifies error logging file name. Files Printer capabilities database See Also lpr(1), pr(1), printcap(5), lpd(8), MAKEDEV(8), pac(8) ``Line Printer Spooler Manual,'' ULTRIX Supplementary Documents, Volume 2: Programmer ln03of(8)
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ln03rof(8) System Manager's Manual ln03rof(8) Name ln03rof, ln03rof_isolatin1, ln03rof_decmcs - LN03R ASCII to PostScript translation filters Syntax /usr/lib/lpdfilters/ln03rof [-c] [-nlogin] [-h host] [-wwidth] [-lnum] [-iindent] [accounting file] Description The filter translates ASCII to PostScript, handles the device dependencies of a PostScript printer and performs some accounting functions. PostScript printers print documents formatted in the PostScript Page Description Language only. The and filters are alternatives to and affect how ASCII documents are printed. They cause the encoding vectors for ISO Latin1 or DEC MCS to be used instead of the Adobe Standard Encoding Vector described in the LN03R PostScript Programmers Supplement. The filter uses idle cycles to cache the fonts when accessed by the standard encoding vector. The cached fonts cannot be used by or which means that small jobs are slowed down. The filter is transparent to documents already formatted in PostScript. The filter assumes that all other documents are plain ASCII and translates them into PostScript. The decision to translate is based on the first two characters in the document. If they are `%!', the filter assumes the document has already been formatted in PostScript. If the first two characters are not `%!', the filter assumes that the document is plain ASCII and translates it into PostScript. The filter ensures that the printer receives documents formatted in Post- Script only. The filter maintains accounting information only for documents that it translates. You specify the accounting file with the af field in the file. For further information, see You can specify the filter in both the of and the if fields of the file. The specification of the filter in the file determines how the command affects the printed document. For example: o If you specify it in the of field only and do not suppress banner pages, the filter always translates the document into PostScript. o If you specify it in the if field and do not suppress banner pages, the document does not print. In this case, the banner is sent directly to the printer. Since the banner is not formatted in PostScript, the printer cannot print the document and aborts the job. o If you suppress the banner by including the sh field in or by printing the file using the with the -h option, the document prints cor- rectly. o You can obtain the best results by specifying the filter in both the of and if fields. The ASCII data type for PrintServer software uses the filter. For more information about how the PostScript translator is invoked, see The filter sets a landscape print mode with a smaller font if the width is greater than 80 columns. The default width for the entry in the file is 132. To print using portrait mode, modify the file to include the following two entries: :pl#66: :pw#80: When printing in portrait mode, if the job page length is greater than 66 a smaller font is used. For a more detailed discussion on filters see the ``Line Printer Spooler Manual'' in the Supplementary Documents, Volume 2: Programmer. Options The arguments passed to the filter depend on its use. The of filter is called with the following arguments: -llength Specify length values from the pl field in the file . -wwidth Specify width values from the pw field in the file. The if filter is passed the following arguments: -c Print control characters when you use the -l option of to print the file. (Optional flag). -hhost Specify the host name of the job owner. (Used to record accounting information). -iindent Specify the amount of indentation to be used. The last argument is the name of the accounting file specified from the af field in the file. -llength Specify length value from the pl field in the file as it does with the of filter. Arguments may have different values if the -w and/or -z options of were used to print the file. -nlogin Specify the login name of the job owner. (Used to record accounting information). -wwidth Specify width value from the pw field in the file as it does with the of filter. Arguments may have different values if the -w and/or -z options of were used to print the file. These arguments only affect documents that are translated from ASCII to PostScript. Diagnostics The lf field (default /dev/null) in the file specifies the error logging file name. Files Printer capabilities database. Shell script to invoke PostScript translators. See Also lpr(1), pr(1), printcap(5), lpd(8), MAKEDEV(8), pac(8), xlator_call(8) "Line Printer Spooler Manual", Supplementary Documents, Volume 2: Programmer ln03rof(8)