From ryandav@u.washington.edu Sun Sep 17 16:00:04 2000 Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (root@jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.8.10]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id QAA119532 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 16:00:04 -0700 Received: from dante55.u.washington.edu (ryandav@dante55.u.washington.edu [140.142.15.105]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.01) with ESMTP id QAA12870 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 16:00:02 -0700 Received: from localhost (ryandav@localhost) by dante55.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id QAA72996 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 16:00:02 -0700 Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 16:00:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "R. David Whitlock" To: UW Linux Group Subject: Re: Hello In-Reply-To: <39C4815A.3C47EA24@execpc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I think there may be a misunderstanding here, but maybe not... When you say "to print web site pages in html format", you mean you want to print the web site as it looks on your screen, correct? HTML is just the bare text language that gets interpreted by browsers in various ways (unfortunately), so part of your question is a little confusing, I think. When you go to Netscape's File->Print menu option, you have the choice to either print to a printer directly, which is what I think you want, or you can print to a file, in which case Netscape takes its own internal representation of the page and formulates it into a .ps file. The PostScript file can be thought of as a "common language" for printers that allows one to represent things visually the same way for each printer. This file can then be sent to any printer and interpreted correctly (for postscript-enabled printers) at any time, or converted to another format if necessary. If you are confused and still having problems doing what you want, tell us more detail. What kind of printer are you using, does it speak PS, what precisely are you trying to do, etc... If I'm way off base, I apologize, but perhaps this helps a bit? -David Work like you don't need money, Love like you've never been hurt, Dance like nobody's watching. On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, John Tankersley wrote: > I have a HP Laserjet 4000 B/W printer that I use for my printing. I have > a question > about how to print web site pages in html format while viewing on the > internet. > Do I always have to download and save the web page in ps format before I > can print it. I am using SuSE Linux 6.4. I understand that a2ps filter > program will work but > is there an easier way.? > > Thank-you, > > John Tankersley > jtank@execpc.com > .