How to install djf Reimer Mellin Sulenstr.8 D-8000 Mönchen 71 Serious effords have been put into djf to make it capable of printing on DIN A4 papersize. The first, naive approach produced an imagesize of 10.94" (11.69 - 1/4" top margin - 1/2" bottom margin) height. This is too little for printing in 2up format or printing 'full' A4 papers. With some tricks it is possible to extend the printable area to 11.315" ( 1/8" top margin, 1/4" bottom margin). If NextStep recognized the *.pdf file, all this would never have been necessary...sigh.. :-) You can compile djf in several ways, depending on which '#define' you set (refer to the source or the Makefile): - DEBUG prints some comments on stderr, they usually appear in /usr/adm/lpd-errs - noUSE_1 ignore mode 1 - USE_3 use the undocumented mode 3 for compression. A real speedup, but only usable for DeskJet 500 (see the end of this file). If you use a DeskJet or DeskJet+, you have to disable this feature. 1.) Copy the contents of the disk into a directory of your choice. 2.) Start Terminal.app or Stuart.app or open a shell in the Workspace. 3.) Become root, either with su(1) or by logging in as root. 4.) cd(1) to the directory you copied from the disk. 5.) enter 'make prepare' This will create some directories djf will need. 6.) enter 'make install'. This will update and install the printer driver. 7.) do not change the NetInfo-parameters via PrintManager, especially not the serial line definitions. 8.) Djf is preconfigured to use the serial line B. If you want to use Line A, change the entries named 'lp' in the file 'dj.printcap' and rerun 'make install'. You have to use a hardware handshake cable for a successful print. See the FAQs from comp.sys.next.announce or look up the correct cable in the 'zs' man page (LaserJet cables will do just fine). 9.) To print with djf, choose the appropiate printer in the print panel. To print with a different resolution, you have to choose a different printer (e.g. dj75 instead of dj300). 10.) djf is configured to print on A4. To change this, you have to change the constant 11.315 in the sources, although I think that papersize 'letter' should work without any change (??). Tip: Enter 'dwrite -g NXPaperType A4' to choose DIN A4 as your default paper size in printpanels. Useful for all printers which support Compression modes 0-3 (only Deskjet 500 was tested), i.e.: LaserJet III, IIIP Deskjet 500 (Deskjet 500 C?) PaintJet XL (black&white mode) (File taken from pclcomp): Here is a list of printers and the compression modes they support: Printer Modes ------- ----- LaserJet 0 LaserJet+ 0 LaserJet 500 0 LaserJet 2000 0 LaserJet II 0 LaserJet IIP 0 1 2 LaserJet III 0 1 2 3 LaserJet IIIP 0 1 2 3 5 (Method 5 is not supported by pclcomp) DeskJet 0 1 2 DeskJet+ 0 1 2 DeskJet 500 0 1 2 3 PaintJet 0 1 PaintJet XL 0 1 2 3 Mode 0 is uncompressed graphics data.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.
