[cups.general] un-wanted line wrap

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Thu Jul 2 14:03:22 PDT 2009


On Jul 2, 2009, at 12:47 PM, john york wrote:
> I am running centos 2.6 with cups 1.3.7 and attempting to print to  
> an okidata b4350 connected to a win-98 pc.
>
> all works well with default 8.5X11 paper in portrait mode.
>
> when I switch to compressed/landscape mode with -o landscape -o  
> cpi=15 options in the command line the printer switches to landscape  
> 15 cpi but cups still wraps the lines at 105 characters (which would  
> be the 10.5 inches at 10 cpi)
>
> the -o no-wrap option only causes the wrap to NOT occur if the line  
> contains no space characters, but still wraps all other lines at the  
> space nearest the 105 character limit.


If you are using the standard texttops filter, "nowrap" (no dash) is  
the proper option to use.

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Michael R Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer







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