LP(8) System Manager's Manual LP(8)NAME
lp - PostScript preprocessors
DESCRIPTION
These programs are part of the lp(1) suite. Each corresponds to a process in the -pprocess option of lp and exists as an rc(1) script in
/sys/lib/lp/process that provides an interface to a PostScript conversion program in /$cputype/bin/aux. The list of processors follows;
after each description is a bracketed list of lp options to which the processor responds:
generic
is the default processor. It uses file(1) to determine the type of input and executes the correct processor for a given (input,
printer) pair.
post passes PostScript through, adding option patches for paper tray information. This does not always work with PostScript generated on
other systems.
noproc passes files through untouched.
ppost converts UTF text to PostScript. [DLcfilmnorxy]
dvipost
converts tex(1) output to PostScript. [Lcinor]
g3post converts CCITT Group 3 FAX data to PostScript.
p9bitpost
converts a Plan 9 bitmap such as /dev/window to PostScript. [Lm]
tr2post
converts troff(1) output for device UTF (the default) to PostScript. [DLcimnorxy]
hpost adds a header page to the beginning of a PostScript printer job so that it may be separated from other jobs in the output bin. The
header has the image of the job's owner from the directory of faces (see face(6)). Page reversal is also done in this processor.
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/postscript
SEE ALSO lp(1)BUGS
The file command is not always smart enough to deal with certain file types. There are PostScript conversion programs that do not have
processors to drive them.
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PS2EPSI(1) Ghostscript Tools PS2EPSI(1)NAME
ps2epsi - generate conforming Encapsulated PostScript
SYNOPSIS
ps2epsi infile.ps [ outfile.epsi ] (Unix)
ps2epsi infile.ps [ outfile.epi ] (DOS)
DESCRIPTION
ps2epsi uses gs(1) to process a PostScript(tm) file and generate as output a new file which conforms to Adobe's Encapsulated PostScript
Interchange (EPSI) format. EPSI is a special form of encapsulated PostScript (EPS) which adds to the beginning of the file in the form of
PostScript comments a bitmapped version of the final displayed page. Programs which understand EPSI (usually word processors or DTP pro-
grams) can use this bitmap to give a preview version on screen of the PostScript. The displayed quality is often not very good (e.g., low
resolution, no colours), but the final printed version uses the real PostScript, and thus has the normal PostScript quality.
USAGE
On Unix systems invoke ps2epsi like this:
ps2epsi infile.ps [ outfile.epsi ]
where "infile.ps" is the input file and "outfile.epsi" is the resulting EPSI file. If the output filename is omitted, it is generated from
the input filename. When a standard extension (".ps", ".cps", ".eps" or ".epsf") is used, it is replaced with the output extension
".epsi". On DOS systems the command is:
ps2epsi infile.ps outfile.epi
where "infile.ps" is the original PostScript file, and "outfile.epi" is the name of the output file.
LIMITATIONS
Not every PostScript file can be encapsulated successfully, because there are restrictions on what PostScript constructs a correct encapsu-
lated file may contain. ps2epsi does a little extra work to try to help encapsulation, and it automatically calculates the bounding box
required for all encapsulated PostScript files, so most of the time it does a pretty good job. There are certain to be cases, however,
where the encapsulation does not work because of the content of the original PostScript file.
COMPATIBILITY
The Framemaker DTP system is one application which understands EPSI files, and ps2epsi has been tested on a number of PostScript diagrams
from a variety of sources, using Framemaker 3.0 on a Sun workstation. Framemaker on other platforms should be able to use these files,
although I have not been able to test this.
FILES
ps2epsi Unix shell script
ps2epsi.bat DOS batch file
ps2epsi.ps the Ghostscript program which does the work
SEE ALSO
gs (1)
VERSION
This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 9.07. However, the content may be obsolete, or inconsistent with ps2epsi.txt.
AUTHOR
George Cameron
9.07 12 February 2013 PS2EPSI(1)