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This is version 3.0 of a2ps, a program to format an ascii file for
printing in a postcript printer. As the copyright indicates, this
distribution can be freely redistributed.
Initial version was a shell program written by evan@csli (Evan
Kirshenbaum). It was very slow and contained many bugs. A new
version was written in C for improve speed execution and portability.
Many new features and improvements have been added.
Some notes on the distribution:
Installation is done by modifying and executing Makefile included
in this distribution. You must give a value to two variables:
- HEADER_PS a2ps will search there the file header.ps at execution
time.
- compiler compiler name, actually one of BSD, SYSV, ANSIC. Turbo
C and Microsoft C are considered ANSIC compilers.
You could also give your own values to following variables:
a) Physical page dimension. Dimensions must be real constants,
specifying inch values.
- HEIGHT sheet height
- WIDTH sheet width
Default values correspond to A4 format (11.64 x 8.27). In USA, you use
use in general 11.0 x 8.5.
b) Total lateral (left+right) or vertical (top+bottom) margins. It must
be also a real constant, specifying inchs (by default 1.2).
- MARGIN
c) Directory separator (by default '/')
- DIR_SEP char
a2ps has been successfully ported to Unix 4.3BSD, Unix SystemV and
MSDOS.
The a2ps distribution consists of the following files:
README This message
Makefile
a2ps.c a2ps source
a2ps.1 a troff manual (man file)
header.ps postcript header used by a2ps
Decide where you want to keep these files and move it there.
Edit "Makefile" and change the definition of HEADER_PS (to
reflect the full pathname of header.ps) and of compiler name.
To make a2ps do:
make a2ps
To install it, do:
make install
Format the manual entry using
nroff -man a2ps.1
Please send problems and feedback to:
miguel@imag.fr or miguel@imag.UUCP (uunet.uu.net!imag!miguel)
Miguel SANTANA
LGI
IMAG-Campus
BP 53X
38041 Grenoble Cedex