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viewer < ./file >| lpr

However, even the lp system can use filters, so a little 
searching might find a HOWTO on setting a filter that would 
do what you want.  The Netpbm library is a powerful package 
for converting image files.  I looked at a tiff2ps package 
that looked very nice.  I don't have the link for that with me.

Am I understanding the question correctly?  Which is that 
you want to print an image?  Gimp will print images 
fantastically after you set it up for your printer.
Dow


John Mills wrote:
> ALErs -
> 
> I have a script to pipe through a decoding filter, and uses 'display' to
> show an image on the screen. For example, I can show an image with:
>  % cat <encoded_jpeg_file> | /usr/local/bin/viewer_filter
> 
> I'm having some trouble setting this up as a printer, so that I could
> invoke it with [say]:
>  % lpr -P viewer <encoded_jpeg_file>
> 
> I'm running RH-7.3. Using the printer configuration tool I defined
> 'viewer' as a text printer, connected to /dev/null. I then went to
> /etc/printcap and made viewer's if=/usr/local/bin/viewer_filter
> 
> This doesn't work. Print jobs to 'viewer' just end up as files in 
> /var/spool/lpd/viewer/
> 
> Any hints on setting this up?
> 
> TIA.
> 
>  - John Mills
>    john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu
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