A2PS

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DESCRIPTION

Options offered by a2ps are the following:

-#num

To get multiple copies of output, where num is the number of copies desired of each file named. By default, you get only one copy.

-?

Print usage information.

-b

Force printing binary files. By default, binary files printing is stopped before second page (see -nb option).

-f

Fold lines too large to be printed inside the borders (default option). Max size depends on format and font size used.

-fnum

Changes font size to this value. Default values for font size are 6.8 in landscape mode and 9.0 in portrait mode. Try other sizes if you think that these values are too small (or big).

-h

Print usage information.

-i

Interpret TAB, BS and FF characters (default option). TAB is replaced by enough spaces to reach next tab stop while BS and FF have their meanings.

-n

Output lines are preceded by line numbers, numbered sequentially from 1 (default option).

-nb

Don't print binary files. To detect such a file we make use of a very simple heuristic: if the first page of the file contains at less 75% of non-printing characters, it's a binary file. First page is always printed.

-nf

Cut lines too large (don't fold).

-nh

Don't print page headers.

-ni

Don't interpret TAB, BS and FF characters. They will be printed according to -v option.

-nn

Don't number output lines.

-np

Don't print pages in portrait mode (see -p option) but in landscape mode.

-nr

Sheet numbering (see -r option) must be continue for all files (don't reset on new file).

-ns

Don't print page surrounding borders.

-nv

Replace non-printing characters by a space.

-nw

Don't use wide format (see -w option).

-p

Print files in portrait mode, one page per physical sheet. The default option is to use landscape mode and print two pages on a physical sheet. This option may not be used with the -w option.

-r

Reset sheet numbering for each new file (default option). Sheet numbering is used to number physical pages (sheets printed) and is placed in the bottom of each physical page. It differs from page numbering: logical pages of file been printed.

-tnum

Set TAB size to num (default 8). This option is ignored if -ni is specified (see below).

-v

Replace non-printing characters so that they are visible and easy to identify (default option). Control characters (ascii codes lower than 0x20) are printed like ^X for ctrl-x; the delete character (hex 0x3f) is printed as ^?. Non ascii characters (with the high bit set) are printed as M- (for meta) followed by the character of the low 7 bits. TAB, BS and FF are handled like non-printing characters if -ni option was taked. + .TP 0.6i -w Use wide format pages. This will result in only one page per physical sheet but in landscape mode. This option may not be used with the -p option.

USAGE

A2ps sends formatted file to standard output. The user could redirect this output to a file, pipe it directly to a print command (like lpr), or pipe it to another filter for further processing.

      a2ps file1 > file2

      a2ps file1 | lpr -l -Pps

      a2ps -p file1 | psnup -n4 | lpr -l -Pps

Don't forget -l option in lpr , if you want that lpr interprets your postscript program.

This filter must be used only with text files. Avoid specially output from TeX, troff or any other such text formatters.  

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