FreeBSD CUPS and filePro only thing not printing

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005, Fairlight wrote:
>>From inside the gravity well of a singularity, Walter Vaughan shouted:
>> Gotta print RAW. Grrr.
>
>I'm surprised you didn't know that.  I've seen references to using raw on
>both SCO and Linux over the years.  Thought it was a "known issue".

Current versions of CUPS support the standard SYSV lp, lpadmin, family of
commands including support for standard SYSV style printer interface
scripts.  I find these far superior for printing from most database and
accounting applications to text based printers since it involves no
conversions from text to PostScript, back to some kind of printer bitmap.

CUPS use of gimp-print and PostScript is great for fancy graphics oriented
printing, but IHMO causes more problems that it's worth when dealing with
text reports and such.  Then again, I still use groff for things like
invoices where I want to overlay printing on top of an EPS background.

On a slightly related note, I see that the SQL-Ledger program appears to do
most of its fancier reports using TeX templates.

Bill
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