Changing Printing Options

The AnswerBook2 printing function returns information in PostScript^TM format for printing. What happens with the PostScript information depends on your web browser's configuration. Specifically, the AnswerBook2 print mechanism responds according to what is configured in the MIME type for application/postscript. To change this configuration, you need to use your web browser's functions.

The following examples illustrate how to change your printing options for a version of the "HotJava Browser" and "Netscape Navigator Browser". Specific steps will change, depending on the version of the browser you are using, but are provided here for illustrative purposes.

HotJava Browser

1. Use the Edit menu to go to the Preferences window.

2. Select Viewer Applications.

3. Scroll down the Content Types list until you find an entry for Postscript File or for application/postscript.

   The entry to display the PostScript information using ImageTool would have View in Application selected for what to do and imagetool %s in the application field.

4. To print directly to a printer, you would change the application field to something like lp -d my_printer %s and leave everything else the same.

Netscape Navigator Browser

1. Use the Options menu to go to the General Preferences window.

2. Select Helpers and change the entry for application/postscript.

   The entry to display the PostScript information using ImageTool would be imagetool %s.

   The entry to print directly to a PostScript-compatible printer would be something like cat %s | lp -d my_printer.