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ANNOUNCE: genscript 1.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sun Sep 10 15:35:10 1995
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 13:20:33 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Markku Tapio Rossi <mtr@snakemail.hut.fi>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: genscript 1.1
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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Followup-to: comp.os.linux.misc
Announcing genscript-1.1
Genscript is a free replacement for the enscript program. Genscript
converts ASCII files to PostScript and spools generated PostScript
output to the specified printer or leaves it to file. Genscript can
be easily extended to handle different output medias and it has many
options which can be used to customize printouts.
* News
- bug and portability fixes
- VMS multinational charset
- cleanups in IBM PC and Mac charsets
- new options:
- -u, --underlay
- -i, --indent
- -D, --setpagecevice
- -S, --statusdict
- --page-label-format
- AFM files are included in distribution
- fixes in the ^@epsf escape
- documentation fixes
* Features
- support for following input encodings:
- ISO-8859/1
- IBM PC
- 7 bit ascii
- 7 bit ascii with some scandinavian extensions: {|}[\].
- Macintosh
- VMS multinational
- PostScript font's default encoding
- support for AFM (Adobe Font Metrics) files
- AFM files are included in distribution
- output medias:
- built-in medias: A4, A5, Letter, Legal
- new medias can be added easily
- special features:
- inlined EPS images
- change body font on-the-fly
- pass key-value pairs to the statusdict and page device.
=> duplex printing, papertray selection, etc.
* Available
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/tools/genscript-1.1.4.tar.gz
Genscript home page: http://iki.fi/~mtr/genscript/
(or http://www.hut.fi/~mtr/genscript/)
* LSM entry
Begin3
Title: Genscript
Version: 1.1.4
Entered-date: Thu 7 Sep 11.26.26 1995
Description: Genscript is a drop-in replacement for the enscript
program. Genscript converts ASCII files to PostScript
and stores generated output to a file or sends it
directly to the printer.
Keywords: ASCII, PostScript, printing
Author: mtr@iki.fi (Markku Rossi)
Maintained-by: mtr@iki.fi (Markku Rossi)
Primary-site: ftp.funet.fi /pub/unix/tools
220kB genscript-1.1.4.tar.gz
Alternate-site:
Original-site:
Platform:
Copying-policy: GPL
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%! -Markku Rossi mtr@beta.hut.fi
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/F{0 0 moveto 0 10 rlineto stroke 0 10 translate}def /P{22.5 rotate} def
/M{-22.5 rotate}def/S{gsave}def/R{grestore}def 300 10 translate dnl -try
define(_E,`ifelse($1,0,,$1,1,``$2'',`_E(decr($1),shift($*))')') dnl `m4'
define(F,``F F M S M F P F P F R P S P F M F M F R'') _E(5,`F') showpage
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