GROLBP(1)						      General Commands Manual							 GROLBP(1)

NAME

       grolbp - groff driver for Canon CAPSL printers (LBP-4 and LBP-8 series laser printers).

SYNOPSIS

       grolpb [ -l ] [ --landscape ] [ -v ] [ --version ] [ -cn ] [ --copies=numcopies ] [ -ppaper_size ] [ --papersize=paper_size ]
	      [ -oorientation ] [ --orientation=orientation ] [ -wwidth ] [ --linewidth=width ] [ -Fdir ] [ --fontdir=dir ] [ -h ] [ --help ]
	      [ files... ]

DESCRIPTION

       grolbp is a driver for groff that produces output in CAPSL and VDM format suitable for Canon LBP-4 and LBP-8 printers.

       For compatibility with grolj4 there is an additional drawing command available:

       D'R dh dv'
	      Draw  a rule (i.e. a solid black rectangle), with one corner at the current position, and the diagonally opposite corner at the cur-
	      rent position +(dh,dv).

OPTIONS

       Note that there can be whitespace between a one-letter option and its argument; on the other hand, there must be whitespace and/or an equal
       sign (`=') between a long-name option and its argument.

       -cnumcopies
       --copies=numcopies
	      Print numcopies copies of each page.

       -l
       --landscape
	      Print the document with a landscape orientation.

       -ppaper_size
       --papersize=paper_size
	      Set the paper size to paper_size, which must be a valid paper size description as indicated in the section PAPER SIZES.

       -oorientation
       --orientation=orientation
	      Print the document with orientation orientation, which must be `portrait' or `landscape'.

       -wwidth
       --linewidth=width
	      Set  the	default  line  thickness  to  width  thousandths of an em.  If this option isn't specified, the line thickness defaults to
	      0.04 em.

       -v
       --version
	      Print the version number.

       -Fdir
       --fontdir=dir
	      Prepend directory dir/devname to the search path for font and device description files; name is the name of the device, usually lbp.

       -h
       --help Print a short help text.

TYPEFACES

       The driver supports the Dutch, Swiss and Swiss-Narrow scalable typefaces, each one in the Regular, Bold,  Italic  and  Bold-Italic  styles.
       Additionally,  the  Courier and Elite monospaced typefaces at the sizes 8 and 12 points (for Courier) resp. 8 and 10 points (for Elite) are
       supported, each one in the Regular, Bold and Italic styles.

       The following chart summarizes the font names you can use to access these fonts:

					    +----------------+-----------+--------+----------+--------------+
					    |	Typeface     |	Regular  |  Bold  |  Italic  |	Bold-Italic |
					    +----------------+-----------+--------+----------+--------------+
					    | Dutch	     |	  TR	 |   TB   |    TI    |	    TBI     |
					    +----------------+-----------+--------+----------+--------------+
					    | Swiss	     |	  HR	 |   HB   |    HI    |	    HBI     |
					    +----------------+-----------+--------+----------+--------------+
					    | Swiss Narrow   |	  HNR	 |  HNB   |   HNI    |	   HNBI     |
					    +----------------+-----------+--------+----------+--------------+
					    | Courier	     |	  CR	 |   CB   |    CI    |		    |
					    +----------------+-----------+--------+----------+--------------+
					    | Elite	     |	  ER	 |   EB   |    EI    |		    |
					    +----------------+-----------+--------+----------+--------------+
PAPER SIZES

       The paper size can be set in the DESC file or with command line options to grolbp.  If the paper size is specified both ways,  the  command
       line options take precedence over the contents of the DESC file (this applies to the page orientation too).

       See groff_font(1) how to set the paper dimensions in the DESC file.

       To set the paper size in the command line, add

	 -p paper-size

       or

	 --papersize=paper-size

       to the other grolbp options, where paper-size is in the same format as in the DESC file.

       If no paper size is specified in the DESC file or the command line, a default size of A4 is used.

PAGE ORIENTATION

       As  with  the  page  size, the orientation of the printed page (portrait or landscape) can be set in the DESC file or with command line op-
       tions.  It is also case insensitive.

       To set the orientation in the DESC file, insert a line with the following content:

	 orientation [portrait|landscape]

       Only the first valid orientation command in the DESC file is used.

       To set the page orientation with command line options you can use the -o or --orientation option with  the  same  parameters  (portrait	or
       landscape) as in the DESC file.	Or you can use the -l option to force the pages to be printed in landscape.

FONT FILE FORMAT

       In  addition  to  the  usual  commands described in groff_font(5), grolbp provides the command lbpname which sets the font name sent to the
       printer when requesting this font.  The syntax of this command is:

	 lbpname printer_font_name

       o      For bitmapped fonts, printer_font_name has the form

		N<base_fontname><font_style>

	      base_fontname is the font name as it appears in the printers font listings without the first letter, up to (but not  including)  the
	      font size.  font_style can be one of the letters R, I, or B, indicating the font styles Roman, Italic and Bold respectively.

	      For  instance,  if the printer's font listing A shows font `Nelite12I.ISO_USA', the corresponding entry in the font description file
	      is

		lbpname NeliteI

	      Note that you may need to modify grolbp to add support for new bitmapped fonts, since the available font names  and  font  sizes	of
	      bitmapped fonts (as documented above) are hard-coded into the program.

       o      For scalable fonts, printer_font_name is identical to the font name as it appears in the printer's font listing A.

	      For  instance, to select the `Swiss' font in bold style, which appears in the printer's font listing A as `Swiss-Bold', the required
	      lbpname command line is

		lbpname Swiss-Bold

       The argument of lbpname is case sensitive.

FILES

       /usr/share/groff_font/devlbp/DESC
	      Device description file.

       /usr/share/groff_font/devlbp/F
	      Font description file for font F.

       /usr/share/tmac/lbp.tmac
	      Macros for use with grolbp.

SEE ALSO

       groff(1), troff(1), groff_out(5), groff_font(5), groff_char(7)

Groff Version 1.19.2						   June 30, 2003							 GROLBP(1)