[PLUG] associate *.PLT files with lpr?

[Denis Heidtmann]

The *.PLT file is created by a print-to-a-file setup in Windows 2000 in VB.

You (and the other patient soles on this list) do not want me to try to
capture months of dialog on why I am doing this.

-Denis

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Nov 2017, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
>
> I would like to be able to double-click on a .PLT file to have lpr launch
>> with the file as the argument.
>>
>
> Denis,
>
>   I've not closely followed this thread so my questions might have been
> answered. What application you use produces a .plt output file? Doesn't the
> application itself have a print function?
>
>   When I looked on the web for information on the file format I learned
> that
> it's produced primarily by TecPlot, a commercial vendor of 2D and 3D
> visualization software for power grid and reservior models.
>
> I have created a *.desktop file, made it executable, and placed it in
>> ~/.local/share/applications. It shows up in Dash. But it does not show as
>> an application that I can associate with a file.
>>
>
>   Admiting to be biased toward the command line, I wonder why providing the
> filename as an argument to lpr is not working for you. Or, if you have an
> application that allows you to view the .plt file on screen, doesn't it
> allow you to print it, too?
>
> Curious mind,
>
> Rich
>
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