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XFORMS(5)							   Forms Library							 XFORMS(5)

NAME

       xforms -   A GUI Toolkit for X Window Systems

SYNOPSIS

       Forms  Library for X (xforms) is a GUI toolkit and builder for the X Window Systems and runs on all major UNIX platforms as well as OpenVMS
       and OS2.  Forms Library is too complex to be described in the "man" page format.  Ask your system administrator for  the  location  of  the
       HTML, PDF or PostScript document or follow the links on the Forms Library's home page for an online version of the documentation.

DESCRIPTION

       Forms  Library  is  a graphical user interface toolkit based on Xlib for X Window Systems. It comes with a rich set of objects such as but-
       tons, browsers, sliders and menus integrated into an elegant event/object callback execution model that allows fast and	easy  construction
       of  X  applications.  In  addition,  the  library  has support for image read and write, format conversion and simple image processing. The
       library consists of a flexible set of C-routines that can be used in C and C++ programs (As of this writing, perl,  ada95,  pascal,  scheme
       and Fortran bindings to the Forms Library are in beta.)

       The  library  is  efficient  and  portable and runs on all major Unix platforms, including Sun, SGI, HP, DEC Alpha/OSF, IBM RS6000, Convex,
       Cray, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, SCO, Unixware, OpenBSD , BSDi, DecSystem(mips)/Ultrix and others.	Non-unix platforms include OpenVMS,  OS/2,
       and Window/NT.

       Bundled	with the library is also a Form designer, fdesign, which can be used to build interaction forms in a WYSIWYG (what you see is what
       you get) way and to generate the corresponding C (or any of the binding languages) code for you.  50+ demos in source code are  distributed
       with the library.

OPTIONS

       All programs written using the Forms Library recognize the following command line options

       -display host:dpy
	     specifies the server to connect to.

       -bw borderwidth
	     specifies the border width to use for built-in objects.

       -flversion
	     prints the xforms version information.

       -visual visualName
	     requests a visual by name such as TrueColor etc. By default the Forms Library always selects the visual that has the most depth.

       -depth depth
	     requests a specific depth.

       -fldebug level
	     generates	some  info about the state of the XForms.  where level is an integer between 1-5 and controls the amount of information to
	     output. Depending on the options used when the Forms Library was built, a level more than 3 might not be available.

       -sync runs the application in synchronous mode with debug level set to 4.

       -private
	     requests a private colormap for the application.

       -shared
	     requests a shared colormap even if the application needs more colors than available. For those colors that can't be allocated in  the
	     shared colormap, substitutions are made so the closest matching color is used.

       -stdcmap
	     requests a standard colormap.

       -name  newname
	     specifies the application name under which resources are to be obtained, rather than the default executable file name.

SEE ALSO

       fdesign(1L), fd2ps(1L)

AUTHOR

       Copyright (c) 1996-2002 T.C. Zhao, Mark Overmars and Steve Lamont
       Since 2002: GNU Lesser General Public License
       Maintainers: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes, Angus Leeming and Jens Thoms Toerring <jt@toerring.de>

HOME PAGE

       http://xforms-toolkit.org
       http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/xforms/

Version 1.0.92							   October 2009 							 XFORMS(5)

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FD2PS(1L)							   Forms Library							 FD2PS(1L)

NAME

       fd2ps -	Translates fdesign output to PostScript

SYNOPSIS

       fd2ps [-options] input.[fd] [output]

DESCRIPTION

       The  program  fd2ps  translates the fd file produced by the interface builder program fdesign of the Forms Library into PostScript (ps), or
       optionally Encapsulated PostScript (eps) for printing or inclusion into other documents. The input file can be given with  or  without  the
       .fd  extension.	 If  output file name is not specified, used is a filename derived from the input file name by replacing the .fd extension
       with ps or eps. If output filename is specified as -, stdout is used.

OPTIONS

       fd2ps accepts the following command line options

       -help Prints a brief summary of all command line options.

       -version
	     Prints the current version of fd2ps and exits.

       -p    The option requests portrait orientation.	By default, the orientation is switched to landscape if portrait will not  fit	the  page.
	     This option overrides the default.

       -l    This options requests landscape output.

       -bw n Specifies the border width of the interface. By default this information is obtained from the .fd file.

       -eps  This option requests Encapsulated PostScript instead of the plain PostScript output.

       -gray This options requests all colors be converted to gray levels. By default, fd2ps outputs colors as specified in the .fd file.

       -G f  specifies	a  gamma  factor  that	will  be used to adjust the builtin colors in a non-linear fashion.  It can be thought as a way to
	     brighten or dim the builtin colors: larger the gamma, brighter the color.	The default gamma is 1.0.

       -dpi f
	     This option specifies the screen resolution on which the user interface is designed.  By giving a smaller or larger dpi  number  than
	     that of the screen, the output is in effect being enlarged or shrunk. This flag does not affect text size. The default DPI is 85.	If
	     the .fd file is specified in device independent unit, this flag does not have effect.

       -rgb file
	     This  option  specifies  the  path  to  the  X  color  database  (rgb.txt)  for  use  in  parsing	XPM  colornames.  The  default	is
	     /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt. Environment variable RGBFile can be used to change the default.

       -paper name
	     This option specifies the paper name, such as A4, Letter etc.  The output PostScript will always center on the page.  Use name all to
	     get a list of the known paper names and sizes.  The default is US Letter unless environment variable PAPER is set to one of the known
	     paper names.

       -pw f Specifies the paper width, in inches.

       -ph f Specifies the paper height, in inches.

       -verbose
	     This option specifies verbose output, i.e., comments in the output PostScript file. Most useful for debugging the fd2ps program.

BUGS

       Not all objects are currently supported.

SEE ALSO

       fdesign(1L), xforms(5)

AUTHOR

       Copyright (c) 1997-98 by T.C. Zhao (tc_zhao@yahoo.com)
       Since 2002: GNU Lesser General Public License
       Maintainers: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes, Angus Leeming and Jens Thoms Toerring <jt@toerring.de>

HOME PAGE

       http://xforms-toolkit.org
       http://world.std.com/~xforms

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