lprdvi(1) [debian man page]
LPRDVI(1) General Commands Manual LPRDVI(1) NAME
lprdvi - send output of dvi2ps to a printer. SYNOPSIS
lprdvi DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the lprdvi command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original command hadn't manual page. OPTIONS
-Pprinter use printer for printing. -out output to standard output. -x n add left margin n units. -y n add top margin n units. -bikanji use printer resident fonts for Japanese. -bitmap use bitmap fonts for Japanese. -Draft not generate non-existent fonts. -fp read only printer entry from fontdesc. -fd F use F as fontdesc -Nowarn not send to a printer if there is a warning. -manual set manual feed mode. These options should be put before options for dvi2ps. SEE ALSO
dvi2ps(1) AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). LPRDVI(1)
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DVI2PS(1) General Commands Manual DVI2PS(1) NAME
dvi2ps - convert a DVI file to PostScript SYNOPSIS
dvi2ps [-D var=val] [-F fontdesc] [-K] [-R n] [-S] [-c output-file] [-d] [-f n] [-i file] [-m n] [-n n] [-o str] [-q] [-r] [-s file] [-t n] [-w] [dvifile[.dvi]] DESCRIPTION
This program converts a DVI file to PostScript, and writes the result to standard output. If no dvifile is given, it reads from standard input. The setting for the printer is given by the fontdesc file. OPTIONS
-D var=val specify a value of a variable var as val. -F fontdesc specify a fontdesc file. -K remove comments from included PS files. -R n specify the resolution of the printer (n dpi). -S turn on printing of statistics. Some versions of dvi2ps will optionally print statistics about font usage and some other informa- tion that is generally only interesting to developers. On these systems, -S turns on the statistics printing. -c output-file write the output to output-file instead of the standard output. -d select debugging output (you probably don't want to). -f n specify a starting page number (this is a TeX page number - count0). -i file copy the named file to the output. The contents of the file named will be copied to the Prolog-part (cf. PostScript Document Struc- turing Convention) of the output. -m0 | -mh | -m1 | -m2 | -m3 | -m4 | -m5 specify a magstep to use to print the document. This overrides whatever might be in the DVI file. -m n specify a magnification to use to print the document. Magic numbers 1000, 1095, 1200, 1440, 1728, 2074 or 2488 correspond to above magsteps. -n n specify the number of copies to print. -o str specify a printing option. Valid options are letter, note, legal, tabloid, a3, a4, a5, b4, b5, landscape, letterlandscape, note- landscape, legalenvelope, tabloidlandscape, a3landscape, a4landscape, a5landscape, b4landscape, b5landscape, envelope, large, small, and manualfeed. This argument may be repeated several times. envelope is a variant of landscape that selects manual feed and does proper positioning for regular envelopes. -q be quiet. Don't chatter about pages converted, etc. -r stack pages in reverse order. Normally, the DVI pages are processed in reverse order, with the result that they are stacked in the correct order in the output tray. This option reverses that. -s file copy the named file to the output. The contents of the file named will be copied to the Setup-part (cf. PostScript Document Struc- turing Convention) of the output. -t n specify an ending page number. -w Don't print out warnings. NOTES
This is a `bare bones' DVI-to-PostScript program. Minimal error checking is done. Not all fonts are available in the resolution needed to display on the laser printer; when a missing font is encountered, dvi2ps will con- tinue to process your DVI file, and will log a warning message. Gaps will appear in the document where the missing characters should have been. It can take up to 60 seconds for the first page to be output. After a head of steam has been built up, it can roll along at 5-10 seconds per page. PostScript ILLUSTRATIONS This program supports use of the special command in TeX to include special PostScript code for graphics, etc. Specifying spe- cial{psfile=foo.ps} in the TeX source will result in the contents of file foo.ps (assumed to contain PostScript code) being copied into the output at that point. For most included graphics, the user's (0,0) point will be set to the point of the special command with x and y coordinates increasing up and to the right and in units of PostScript points (72/inch) -- thus you must explicitly leave space above the special command for most graphics. For graphics produced by Apple Macintoshes (i.e., MacDraw, MacPaint, etc.), the top left corner of the drawing will be at the point of the special command; in this case you must leave the required space below the special. The special string can contain any number of the following keyword=value pairs, separated by blanks: Keyword Value Type (dimensions in points: 72 pt = 1 in) psfile string - PostScript file to include epsfile string - Encapsulated PostScript file to include hsize dimension - maximum horizontal size (for clipping) vsize dimension - maximum vertical size (for clipping). Use negative values to specify a clipping region below the current posi- tion. hoffset dimension - amount to shift right voffset dimension - amount to shift up hscale number - scale factor in x-dimension vscale number - scale factor in y-dimension rotation number - counter-clockwise rotation angle Thus: special{psfile=foo.ps hoffset=72 hscale=0.9 vscale=0.9} will shift the graphics produced by file foo.ps right by 1", and will draw it at 0.9 normal size. hsize and vsize are given relative to the (0,0) point of the drawing and are unaffected by offsets and scales. Offsets are given relative to the point of the special command, and are unaffected by scales. If Macintosh drawings are to be included, the proper LaserPrep file must be downloaded to the printer, either permanently or as another header file in addition to the standard tex.ps header file. FILES
*.dvi TeX DeVice Independent output file /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/.../ default font file directories /usr/local/lib/dvi2ps/fontdesc default fontdesc file SEE ALSO
tex(1) BUGS
There is likely a limit to the size of documents that can be printed (at least, on the Apple LaserWriter). If you get VMerrors reported when printing, use the -f and -t options, to select a range of pages. The exact limit is unknown, but is probably well in excess of 50 pages for `normal' documents, decreasing with number of different fonts used, size of fonts, etc. AUTHORS
Mark Senn wrote the early versions of this program for the BBN BitGraph. Stephan Bechtolsheim, Bob Brown, Richard Furuta, James Schaad and Robert Wells improved it. Norm Hutchinson ported the program to the Sun. Neal Holtz ported it to the Apollo, and then to produce Post- Script. Jean-Francois Lamy fixed the interface for PostScript illustrations. (PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc.) 4 September 2000 DVI2PS(1)