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Old 4th November 2008
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I'm revisiting this question as I setup my laptop to use my printer. I'm half tempted to just install cups and give that a go. But, if I can, I think the base lpr daemon should work fine. I'm either going to print plain text, or I can get non-plain text into a .ps file that can be printed.

I have two questions:

Does the print output of programs such as Firefox (or any browser) and OpenOffice play nice with the lpr daemon? Does it need to be configured with any special options for that?

I had problems with fonts before. Basically the lpr daemon - whatever font it used didn't print every character I needed. Noteably a backtick - ` - was printed as a single quote - ' -. You can imagine the difficulties when I printed out things such as shell scripts. The lpr man page says:

Code:
-[1234]font
             Specifies a font to be mounted on font position i. The daemon
             will construct a .railmag file referencing the font pathname.
...but I find this confusing. What does the [1234] signify - do they all need to be present or do they represent various options; and what is the .railmag file?
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