[KLUG Members] printing .prn

[Eric Beversluis]

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 18:56 -0500, Mark Kowitz wrote:
> The way I understand Windows .prn files, is they are a printable file,
> embeded with the windows print driver commands, specific to the
> printer it was made for.  In windows you can "print to file", using a
> particular printer driver, and then later just copy the file to the
> printer via DOS. EG: "copy file.prn \\server\printer".  The driver
> that creates the file has to be the correct driver for the printer the
> file is later copied to.
> I used to do this, but I'm not sure if this is the same thing you're
> talking about. (for whatever it's worth).
> 
> mk
> 
Thanks. I take it this means (a) I won't be able to print it out of
Linux at all, and (b) IE at the library may well not have saved it
correctly for my particular printer.

Just for fun, I'll try printing it from Windows.  Fortunately, I was
able to reaccess the page at home from Linux and save it as a .ps file.
The reason I tried to save it at all was that I feared maybe the journal
was a subscription journal that I wouldn't be able to access away from
the library.

Thanks again.
EB



> On 2/22/07, Eric Beversluis <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 16:12 -0500, greenproc wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > Firefox just asks me what program I want to open it with. Doesn't open
> > it itself.
> >
> > OO.o Writer just opens it as a string of commands to the printer.
> >
> > I went into the CUPS documentation and made the Brother printer the
> > default printer. The ff command then sent the file to the printer, the
> > printer light that shows it's receiving a file blinked, but nothing
> > printed. I tried this twice.
> >
> >  lpr /home/eric/Desktop/FreshmanSeminar/Scotts_MakeEmplHealthy.prn
> >
> > So this leaves me with two questions,
> > 1) What's the correct naming convention to send it to the Brother
> > printer if that is not the designated default printer? I tried both
> >    -P usb:/dev/usb/lp0
> > and
> >    -P HL-1440
> > Maybe I should have tried
> >    -P Brother HL-1440.
> >
> > 2) Why does it not print when it is sent? (The printer works find with
> > stuff sent from programs such as OO.o or gedit.)
> >
> > EB
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