Top > Printing > Misc > apsfilter

apsfilter - Print filter with file type recognition, print preview, and duplex printing

Apsfilter is a printfilter that lets you print different document types without having to convert them manually into something that your printer understands. Apsfilter workds with any flavor of *nix running lpd or LPRng. It supports GhostScript and various 3rd-party printer drivers. It autodetects file, archive, and compression types and supports printing on local and remote printers.

General and "per printer-queue" based config files let you configure the printer for your needs, and you can change printing parameters on the fly without having to edit any config file. by using the lpr -C/-Z command line options. A SETUP script helps you to test various supported ghostscript drivers prior installation, makes the necessary entries in /etc/printcap, creates spool directories, and creates apsfilter default config files as needed.



Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.apsfilter.org/
Source tarballhttp://www.apsfilter.org/download/apsfilter-7.2.5.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://www.apsfilter.org/download.html
Latest versionhttp://www.apsfilter.org/download.html
Version 7.2.5 (stable) released on 2002-11-24
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User guide available in HTML format from http://www.apsfilter.org/docs/apsfilter-handbook-current.html
Support contacts

Announce List<apsfilter-announce@apsfilter.org> http://www.apsfilter.org/Lists-Archives/
Announce Newshttp://www.apsfilter.org/
Help List<apsfilter-help@apsfilter.org> http://www.apsfilter.org/Lists-Archives/
Developer List<apsfilter-hackers@apsfilter.org> http://www.apsfilter.org/Lists-Archives/

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Contributors
Sponsors

Related information

Source repositoryhttp://www.apsfilter.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi
Interfacescommand line
Programsapsfilter, aps2file, apspreview, apsfilter-bug
Source languagesBash shell
Use requirementsA converter for each file format (typically ghostscript if you don't have a true PS printer and a bunch of other filter like: a2ps, psutils, ImageMagick, acroread, netpbm utils).
Weak prerequisitespsutils, ghostscript (for non-PostScript printers)
Related programsLPRng, GNU ghostscript

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-03-04
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

Categories


The copyright licensing notice below applies to this text. The software described in this text has its own copyright notice and license, which can usually be found in the distribution itself.

Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute, and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of this license is included in the file COPYING.DOC.

Please report any problems in this page to bug-directory@gnu.org, or find out how you can help fix them.

The FSF provides this directory as a service to the free software community. Please consider donating to the FSF to help support this project.