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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
> To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [BL] Printing scanned files
> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:57:12 +0000 (UTC)
>
> > I downloaded 2 MB of netpbm 10.19 source code and found not
> > pbmtops.c but pbmtolps.c (line ps) and pbmtoepson.c and pbmtols.c,
> > the latter two possibly capable of generating files that can be
> > sent directly to epson or laserjet printers.  I have to figure out
> > how to use gcc directly to compile them.  Can anyone tell me if any
> > other libraries are needed for compiling besides glibc?
>
> You shouldn't. It's just a command-line converter, shouldn't need any
> external libraries except a libc.

Maybe no other files needed to run it, but I need some to compile: 
pm_config.h and pm.h and pbm.h which I fetched and put in the same 
directory as pbmtoepson.c etc.

I don't really know how to compile in C but my partner guessed:

gcc -Wall -o pbmtoepson pbmtoepson.c

Undefined reference to pbm_init
and also pm_usage pm_openr pbm_readpmb pm_close.

I could see these mentioned in the .c file.

Are these programs which I need to compile first?  I could not search for 
them easily because I don't have permission to 'find' at sdf where I 
unpacked the 2MB into something very much larger.

> > cat `pbmtolj filename.pbm' > /dev/lp1  ?
>
> That's not a valid shell command. For printers that understand
> PostScript:

is 'lj' a type of postscript?  I thought it was some format that laserjet
printers understood directly.  Similarly for epson.  pbmtolps produces a 
form of postscript which would need to be printed  using ghostscript.

> pbmtolj filename.pbm >/dev/lp1
>
> For those that don't:
>
> pbmtolj filename.pbm | lpr
>
> > I found also pbmtoppa, which turns pbm files into a format directly
> > printable by 'Windows printers' HP 720 and 822C (which I have).

> "Windows printer" is a misnomer, then, is it not, if you can print
> with BL? "Non-standard printer" I'd call it.
It is labelled 'Windows printer'.  As opposed to DOS or Mac.
Prints ppa files.

> David
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