Printing text, image, text, image, ...

[William Park]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 05:48:27PM -0400, Tim Writer wrote:
> William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 11:46:06AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 07:05:48PM -0400, William Park wrote:
> > > > Is there a way (say, short script) to print 20 lines of text, then
> > > > small image, then 20 lines of text, then image, ... ?
> > > 
> > > Besides using a web browser by making it html?
> > > 
> > > Probably possible with tetex, or openoffice, or you could generate some
> > > postscript with a perl script or something.
> > 
> > In fact, someone suggested the same on <comp.os.linux.misc>.  I totally
> > forgot about HTML.  I was thinking LaTeX, but I wasn't sure whether
> > 200MB TeX would be installed on target machine, which this whole thing
> > is supposed to run.
> > 
> > Then again, HTML requires browser...  I'll look into generating
> > Postscript directly.  That would be the cleanest solution.
> 
> Depending on your definition of "clean". PS requires you to position text
> (and images) explicitly. Consequently, you'll have to write PS routines to
> fill your 20 lines of text and you may need to provide your PS program with
> some details of the output device. There are examples of doing this kind of
> thing in the PostScript Cookbook (also known as the blue book) which, IIRC,
> is available on-line from Adobe.
> 
> Simpler would be to use groff which is likely to be installed on the target
> machine.

I may have found a solution.  While reading up on 'html2ps', I found
GNU 'enscript'.

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