From: Nux Vomica Subject: Re: Let Me Show Yous How To Print Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy References: <66f8325b$0$3591$426a74cc@news.free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 44 Path: ...!news-out.netnews.com!s1-1.netnews.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.usenetexpress.com!not-for-mail Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2024 21:46:22 +0000 Nntp-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2024 21:46:22 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 1737 Organization: UsenetExpress - www.usenetexpress.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetexpress.com Bytes: 1993 On 28 Sep 2024 16:44:11 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote: > >> All GNU/Linux software should produce PostScript output for >> printing. > > Why? You are shooting things without argument. Why is PostScript better > than everything else? > You are a total idiot and you make me mad. ALL software ion GNU/Linux produces Postscript for printing. Let's consider Cooledit, the text editor. If I instruct Cooledit to print (Ctl+P) it will put up a dialog asking to print with the command: lpr file.txt Lpr is the CUPS printing utility that handles, if necessary, all conversions to PostScript. If no conversions are needed then the PostScript output is unchanged. Since I don't use CUPS I can substitute my own script for lpr: #!/bin/bash PRINTFILE=`mktemp --suffix='.ps' --tmpdir=/tmp/printq app.XXX` cat - > $PRINTFILE This will redirect the output to a file in /tmp/printq and, sure enough, the file is PostScript. The same is true for LibreOffice and any other GNU/Linux application. So, as usual, you are full of fucking shit. Don't dare ever again to challenge my GNU/Linux authority. -- Systemd: solving all the problems that you never knew you had.