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Re: LPR output disappearing
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: David Masterson <dsmasterson at gmail dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 04:27:46 +0400
- Subject: Re: LPR output disappearing
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Greetings, David Masterson!
> I created a PDF file with Org-Mode in Emacs and used "gv" and "lpr" to
> try to output. I have a Dell A10 printer attached to my Acer PC. The
> output looked like it was going to work in that the Dell popup that
> shows that the printer is about to print something popped up. However,
> it took a long time and eventually did nothing. I turned around and
> printed the same file with Adobe Acrobat Reader and it printed fine, so
> I guess the file is proper PDF. This is my first time attempting to do
> a printout with "lpr" in Cygwin, so maybe I haven't configured something
> appropriately or given lpr the proper arguments (I think it was given
> just the filename).
> Anyone know what's wrong?
If I understand you correctly, you've just tried to send PDF over to the
printer through LPR?
I'm afraid, it just not going to work, at all.
LPR, in essence, is just a file transfer tool. It doesn't do any format
conversion. Unless your printer natively understand PDF format (which I highly
doubt), it would only output random ASCII garbage, or, as you've found out,
nothing at best. (Nothing is actually the best possible output, trust me...)
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 28.06.2014, <04:24>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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