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genscript-1.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Wed Aug 23 03:41:01 1995
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 13:43:36 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Markku Tapio Rossi <mtr@snakemail.hut.fi>
Subject: genscript-1.0
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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Followup-to: comp.os.linux.setup
Announcing genscript-1.0
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Genscript converts ASCII files to PostScript and spools generated
output to printer or leaves it to file. It is almost a drop-in
replacement for the enscript program, only some exotic options are not
supported.
* Features:
- support for following input encodings:
- ISO-8859/1
- IBM PC
- 7 bit ascii
- 7 bit ascii with some scandinavian extensions: {|}[\].
- Macintosh
- PostScript font's default encoding
- support for AFM (Adobe Font Metrics) files
- 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
- etc.
* Available:
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/tools/genscript-1.0.1.tar.gz
http://iki.fi/~mtr/genscript/
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%! -Markku Rossi mtr@beta.hut.fi
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------
/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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