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

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
>
> > Not specifically the BL3 version, the PseudoColor
> > problem is in the 4.0.2 version.  I've also tried
> > the 4.0.3 version and it too appears to lack the
> > ability to do PseudoColor.
>
> I've got an Xvesa on my hard drive, from XFree86 4.3.0.
> Do you know if it's fixed in this version? If not, how
> do I check?

Xvesa -screen 640x480x256 (or any other resolution listed as Pseudocolor 
when you type Xvesa -listmodes).

If it is broken you will probably see just bright blue.

With my Virge card at 1600 res (256 colors) it crashes instead.

> Thanks,
> David
> --


Progress on printing with netpbm!!!!

Laser printer number one got a paper jam and my partner could not find the 
paper I told him was in it so he recycled it.  It had a bad cartridge 
anyway (leaky seals or bad blade, says a repairman) and was printing a 
black stripe on each page as well as jamming (bad rollers?).

Laser printer (LED) number two printed one word and then said 'Out of 
toner'.  We can order a toner kit for $18 plus $7 shipping that does 3000 
pages.

I have no other laser printers, and the Panasonic did not do good Epson 
emulation, and I did not feel like dragging the ESCP/2 into this room 
(and trying to clean the built-in printhead again so it would streak 
less)

so I tried printing to the HP Deskjet 670 using pbmtolj.
pbmtolj filename.pbm > /dev/lp0

It printed recognizable text BUT:

What it printed was 4 times as wide as it should be (I got the upper 
corner of the page).

I need to learn to set the size to 1/4 as wide before printing to deskjet 
with the laserjet pbmtolj.   There may be some switch to pbmtolj, 
otherwise I will need pbmreduce or pbmscale (or the pnm equivalent).

DOS printgif does not print things properly to scale - it seems to have a 
maximum usable print space which leaves 1" margins.

So could you post a package of anything p?m followed by scale, reduce, 
crop, rotate, flip, flop, merge and whatever else looks useful and is 
small?  Also gif png jpeg tiff pdf and ps to pnm or pbm, so people can 
print images (pipe the output of pstopbm to pbmtolj?).  Maybe set up a 
script to print different formats for different printers (deskjet vs lj).

If this is too much trouble I will make up a wish list.

I think netpbm uses gs to convert pdftops  - does xpdf also have a CLI 
utility for that?

I can eventually try to make up a package with instructions on how to 
print to deskjet, including the three libraries from BL3 for BL2.

This was much much faster than converting with Image Magick convert. A few 
seconds wait before it started to print.  And I don't need to set up with 
ghostscript, or xv, or Xvesa as user, or printcap or deskjet.filter.....

You do need parport.o parport_pc.o and lp.o
You can print to any lp without having to edit printcap.

It should be possible to print images and pdf/ps with BL3 using only 100K 
or so of programs.  Maybe Steven could write up some elegant scripts for 
this, for various printers, with a setup menu.

My cup is 1/16 full!  (But my cartridge is not and the deskjet 670 feeds 
four pages at a time....)

Thanks a bunch, David!