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General Purpose PostScript Generating Utility

9.6.1 Invoking psset

psset [options] [file]

produce a version of the PostScript file (or of the standard input if no file is given, or if file is `-') that makes protected calls to the PostScript operator setpagedevice. Typical use is making file print duplex, or on the manual tray etc.

The call is protected so that the resulting file is safe, i.e., will still be portable, even with requests such as `-Sfoo:bar'.

It is safe to run psset with no feature requests. Depending upon the option `--no-fix', it is either equivalent to doing nothing, or to running fixps (see section 9.2 fixps).

Supported options are:

Option: -h

Option: --help

Print a short help message and exit successfully.

Option: -V

Option: --version

report the version and exit successfully.

Option: -D

Option: --debug

enter in debug mode.

Option: -q

Option: --quiet

Option: --silent

Run silently.

Option: -o file

Option: --output=file

specify the file in which is saved the output.

Option: -n

Option: --no-fix

psset will fail on ill designed PostScript. Actually it is the psutils that fail. To avoid this, by default the PostScript file is sanitized by fixps.

When given this option, don't run fixps. This is meant to be used when fixps has already been used higher in the processing chain.

Option: -S key:value

Option: --setpagedevice=key:value

Insert a setpagedevice call setting key to value. Multiple values accumulate. Lists of requests separated with `;' are valid (e.g., `-SDuplex:true;Tumble:false').

Option: -a page

Option: --at=page

Specify the page where the setpagedevice call should be done. The page 0, which is the default, corresponds to the `Setup' section of the document. More precisely, the insertion is performed at the end of the `Setup' section, so that if there are multiple calls to psset on the same document (which is of course, a bad idea), the last call is winning.

In a typical use you should not change the page.

Option: -m

Option: --manualfeed

Alias for `-SManualFeed:true', i.e., the request to print using the manual feed tray.

Option: -s

Option: --simplex

Alias for `-SDuplex:false', i.e., force simplex printing.

Option: -d

Option: --duplex

Alias for `-SDuplex:true;Tumble:false', i.e., the request to print in duplex mode, binding along the long edge of the paper.

Option: -t

Option: --tumble

Alias for `-SDuplex:true;Tumble:true', i.e., duplex printing such that binding should happen on the short edge of the medium.