Brother HL-L2340D printer and lpd?

Steve O'Hara-Smith steve at sohara.org
Wed May 6 06:17:11 UTC 2020


On Wed, 6 May 2020 08:59:35 +0700
Victor Sudakov <vas at sibptus.ru> wrote:

> Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> > 
> > > a2ps from packages is broken:
> > > 
> > > $ a2ps /etc/rc.conf
> > > a2ps: unknown medium `libpaper'
> > 
> > 	I think you'll find installing the libpaper package will fix
> > that -
> 
> It's installed: 
> 
> $ a2ps
> a2ps: unknown medium `libpaper'
> $ pkg info -o libpaper
> libpaper-1.1.24.4              print/libpaper
> 
> > I use a2ps regularly.
> 
> Does it handle UTF-8 (Cyrillic) text? If it does not, is there any sense
> to prefer it over enscript?

	No, I don't think there are strong reasons to prefer either over
the other.

	Given that problem it might be worth trying to see if this
<https://github.com/arsv/u2ps> ports easily - it claims to be something like
a2ps for unicode.

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