On Wednesday 25 October 2006 16:40, Paul Davis wrote: > coming from a command line background, it seems ridiculous > that the file managers/browsers have all omitted to leverage > the power of lpr and its filter system. You do realize that most office document and image formats are not plain text, PDF or Postscript, right? Because for all of lpr's power, those are the only common formats it handles as far as I know, and running "my-resume.odt" through lpr will waste a lot of paper pretty fast. Rob