[KLUG Members] printing .prn

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Eric Beversluis wrote:
> I have gotten used to saving a printable version of a web page to file.
> Firefox saves them as .ps and KGhostView opens and prints them nicely.
> 
> Today I saved a printable file at the library and it was saved as a .prn
> by IE. I mailed it to myself at home. But how do I open it? KGhostView
> and Evince Document viewer don't want to open it. Evolution says it's a
> plain text file, but my text editors don't handle it. 
> 
> So how do I open it to print it?

Have you tried opening the IE saved .prn file with firefox?  If that works,
then you could export from firefox as .ps and do your usual.  How does OO
handle the file?


> 
> I've tried from the command line:
> [root at sonyc ~]# lpr -P
> HL-1440 /home/eric/Desktop/FreshmanSeminar/Scotts_MakeEmplHealthy.prn
> 
> and numerous permutations, most notably
> 
> [root at sonyc ~]# lpr -P
> usb:/dev/usb/lp0 /home/eric/Desktop/FreshmanSeminar/Scotts_MakeEmplHealthy.prn
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> EB
> 
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