Re: Fprint

["Mark Verschell" <markv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 16,  4:40pm, cortinas@manassas.nssl.uoknor.edu wrote:
> Subject: Fprint
> Any suggestions on what to do to set up the Fprint script to use the -P
> option?
>
> Thanks,
> John Cortinas
> cortinas@nssl.ou.edu
>-- End of excerpt from cortinas@manassas.nssl.uoknor.edu

Fprint already uses the -P option the error message you are getting is because
you have not set Fprint up to work at your site. What you have to do is modify
Fprint to include the printers that you have locally. To do this you edit
Fprint (location can be found by typing "which Fprint"). Go to the section that
says:

############################ MODIFY HERE ###################################

Here you will see a bunch of case statements. For example:
case COLOR_PS:
# If the printer is a color PS printer, use that device type
   set translator_args = "$translator_args -l cps -d cps"
   breaksw

what you need to add is case statements with appropriate translator arguments
for the printers you have locally. For example, some of the printers at our
site are:

qms - a monochrome postscript printer
teklaser - a color postscript printer

So, I add (I actually replaced the existing case statements) the following
lines to the Fprint code:

case qms
# monochrome - use default options (color/greyscale plots with monochrome
lines)
   breaksw
case teklaser
# color - use color fills with color lines
   set translator_args = "$translator_args -l cps -d cps"
   breaksw

So, for example, let's say you have a Tek Phaser (which needs a special option
because it doesn't plot on the whole page), and it's called phaser

Add the following lines to Fprint:
case phaser
   set translator_args = "$translator_args -l cps -d phaser"
   breaksw

Make sure you keep a copy of the original Fprint in case you  make a mistake

Mark

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