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genscript-1.2.20
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Nov 4 01:55:16 1995
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 23:50:41 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
Reply-To: linux-announce-owner@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Markku Tapio Rossi <mtr@snakemail.hut.fi>
Subject: genscript-1.2.20
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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Announcing genscript-1.2.20
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 media and it has many
options which can be used to customize printouts.
* News
- new options:
-C, --line-numbers precede each line with its line number
-Z, --pass-through-ps-files
Pass through all PostScript files without any
modifications.
- ISO-8859/2 (latin2) input encoding
- new output media:
- A3
- A4dj A4 for HP DeskJet printers
- new config file option to specify printer queue parameter
- cleanups, documentation fixes, etc.
* Features
- support for following input encodings:
- ISO-8859/1
- ISO-8859/2
- 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 for the most common PostScript fonts are included in
distribution
- PostScript font downloading
- output media:
- built-in media: A3, A4, A4dj, A5, Letter, Legal
- new media 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-1.2.20.tar.gz
Genscript home page: http://iki.fi/~mtr/genscript/
(or http://www.hut.fi/~mtr/genscript/)
* LSM Entry
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Title: Genscript
Version: 1.2.20
Entered-date: Tue 31 Oct 08.57.04 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, enscript
Author: mtr@iki.fi (Markku Rossi)
Maintained-by:
Primary-site: ftp.funet.fi /pub/unix/tools
232kB genscript-1.2.20.tar.gz
Alternate-site:
Original-site:
Platform:
Copying-policy: GPL
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%! -Markku Rossi mtr@iki.fi
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