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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.8, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <!-- This manual is for GNU Texinfo (version 6.8, 8 June 2021), a documentation system that can produce both online information and a printed manual from a single source using semantic markup. Copyright (C) 1988, 1990-1993, 1995-1999, 2001-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <title>Print with lpr (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="Print with lpr (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="Print with lpr (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="texi2any"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> <link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" rel="index" title="Command and Variable Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Hardcopy.html" rel="up" title="Hardcopy"> <link href="Within-Emacs.html" rel="next" title="Within Emacs"> <link href="Format-with-tex_002ftexindex.html" rel="prev" title="Format with tex/texindex"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.copiable-anchor {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em} a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} span:hover a.copiable-anchor {visibility: visible} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <div class="section" id="Print-with-lpr"> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Within-Emacs.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Printing From an Emacs Shell</a>, Previous: <a href="Format-with-tex_002ftexindex.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Format with <code>tex</code>/<code>texindex</code></a>, Up: <a href="Hardcopy.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Formatting and Printing Hardcopy</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <span id="Print-with-lpr-from-Shell"></span><h3 class="section">18.4 Print with <code>lpr</code> from Shell</h3> <span id="index-lpr-_0028DVI-print-command_0029"></span> <p>The way to print a DVI file depends on your system installation. Two common ones are ‘<samp>dvips foo.dvi -o</samp>’ to make a PostScript file first and then print that, and ‘<samp>lpr -d foo.dvi</samp>’ to print a DVI file directly. </p> <p>For example, the following commands will (probably) suffice to sort the indices, format, and print this manual using the <code>texi2dvi</code> shell script (see <a href="Format-with-texi2dvi.html">Format with <code>texi2dvi</code></a>). </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">texi2dvi texinfo.texi dvips texinfo.dvi -o lpr texinfo.ps </pre></div> <p>Depending on the <code>lpr</code> setup on your machine, you might be able to combine the last two steps into <code>lpr -d texinfo.dvi</code>. </p> <span id="index-PCL-file_002c-for-printing"></span> <p>You can also generate a PDF file by running <code>texi2pdf</code> instead of <code>texi2dvi</code>; a PDF is often directly printable. Or you can generate a PCL file by using <code>dvilj</code> instead of <code>dvips</code>, if you have a printer that prefers that format. </p> <span id="index-Shell-printing_002c-on-MS_002dDOS_002fMS_002dWindows"></span> <span id="index-Printing-DVI-files_002c-on-MS_002dDOS_002fMS_002dWindows"></span> <span id="index-lpr_002dd_002c-replacements-on-MS_002dDOS_002fMS_002dWindows"></span> <p><code>lpr</code> is a standard program on Unix systems, but it is usually absent on MS-DOS/MS-Windows. If so, just create a PostScript or PDF or PCL file, whatever is most convenient, and print that in the usual way for your machine (e.g., by sending to the appropriate port, usually ‘<samp>PRN</samp>’). </p> </div> </body> </html>