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Operating Systems Linux Debian hardware printout layout terminology Post 302638717 by cowLips on Thursday 10th of May 2012 03:51:22 PM

05-10-2012

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hardware printout layout terminology

trying to find online or a book.
the words to use to find 'a' or
'the ways and means' to format left margin, right margin etc from man pages to Hardware Printer.
while looking to print man pages with a Hardware Printer.
I have found lp.
and did a

Code:

man sudoers | lp -p2

to test.
The original that was sent thru the OS GUI did come out okay, yet there were some individual words that were off set to the far left zero margin while the majority were somewhere in the range of 20 px left.
The test page using lp came out with some presets, various individual words and their following sentence structures were included into the zero left margin.
I can understand the end of line from other reading going back to C, though i cannot at this time remember specifics , yet i do understand that there is recognized in the code 'end of line' .
So i would like to get down to some nitty gritty understanding of printing Man Pages to a Hardware Printer and the ways and means to format the text.
Does any one know of words to search with that do not include the usual word 'print' used in conjunction with the command line.
I have tried many word combo`s , frustrating.
Thank you

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

paps

PAPS(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   PAPS(1)

NAME

       paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango

SYNOPSIS

       paps [options] files...

DESCRIPTION

       paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves
       through the pango ft2 backend.

OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with  two  dashes  (`-').   A  summary  of  options	is
       included below.

       --landscape
	      Landscape output. Default is portrait.

       --columns=cl
	      Number of columns output. Default is 1.
	      Please notice this option isn't related to the terminal length as in a "80 culums terminal".

       --font=desc
	      Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12.

       --rtl  Do right to left (RTL) layout.

       --paper ps
	      Choose paper size. Known paper sizes are legal, letter and A4. Default is A4.

       Postscript points
	      Each postscript point equals to 1/72 of an inch. 36 points are 1/2 of an inch.

       --bottom-margin=bm
	      Set bottom margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

       --top-margin=tm
	      Set top margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

       --left-margin=lm
	      Set left margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

       --right-margin=rm
	      Set right margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

       --gutter-width=gw
	      Set gutter width. Default is 40 postscript points.

       --help Show summary of options.

       --header
	      Draw page header for each page.

       --markup
	      Interpret the text as pango markup.

       --lpi  Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing.

       --cpi  Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size.

       --stretch-chars
	      Indicates  that  characters  should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops
	      behaviour.

AUTHOR

       paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>.

       This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								  April  17, 2006							   PAPS(1)