enscript
NAME
enscript - convert text files to PostScript
SYNOPSIS
enscript
[-12BcgGhjkKlmOqrRvVzZ]
[-# copies]
[-a pages]
[-A align]
[-b header]
[-C[start_line]]
[-d printer]
[-D key[:value]]
[-e[char]]
[-E[lang]]
[-f font]
[-F header_font]
[-H[num]]
[-i indent]
[-I filter]
[-J title]
[-L lines_per_page]
[-M media]
[-n copies]
[-N newline]
[-o outputfile]
[-o -]
[-p outputfile]
[-p -]
[-P printer]
[-s baselineskip]
[-S key[:value]]
[-t title]
[-T tabsize]
[-u[text]]
[-U num]
[-W language]
[-X encoding]
[filename ...]
DESCRIPTION
Enscript converts text files to PostScript and spools generated
PostScript output to the specified printer or leaves it to file. If
no input files are given, enscript processes standard input.
Enscript can be extended to handle different output media and it
has many options which can be used to customize printouts.
OPTIONS
- -# num
- Print num copies of each page.
- -1, -2, --columns=num
- Specify how many columns each page have. With long option
--columns=num you can specify more than 2 columns per page.
- -a pages, --pages=pages
- Specify which pages are printed. Page specification pages can
be given in following formats:
- begin-end
- print pages from begin to end
- -end
- print pages from 0 to end
- begin-
- print pages from begin to end
- page
- print page page
- odd
- print odd pages
- even
- print even pages
- -A align, --file-align=align
- Align separate input files to even align page count. This is
handy for two-side and 2-up printings (--file-align=2).
- -b header, --header=header
- Use text header as a page header. The default page header is
constructed from file's name and last modification time.
The header string header can contain the same formatting escapes
which can be specified for the %Format directives in the user
defined fancy headers. For example, the following option prints the
file name, current data and page numbers:
enscript --header='$n %W Page $% of $=' *.c
The header string can also contain left, center and right justified
fields which are separated with the '|' character:
enscript --header='$n|%W|Page $% of $=' *.c
now the file name is printed left justified, the date is centered to
the header and the page numbers are printed right justified.
- -B, --no-header
- Do not print page headers.
- -c, --truncate-lines
- Cut lines that are too long. As a default, enscript wraps long
lines so no information is lost.
See also option --slice which can be used to slice long lines
to separate pages.
- -C[start_line], --line-numbers[=start_line]
- Precede each line with its line number. Optional argument
start_line specifies the number of the first line in the input.
The number of the first line defaults to 1.
- -d name
- Spool output to the printer name.
- -D key[:value], --setpagedevice=key[:value]
- Pass a page device definition to the generated PostScript output. If
no value is given, key key is removed from definitions.
For example, command
enscript -DDuplex:true foo.txt
prints file foo.txt in duplex (two side) mode.
Page device operators are implementation dependant but they are
standardized. See section PAGE DEVICE OPTIONS for details.
- -e[char], --escapes[=char]
- Enable special escapes interpretation (see section SPECIAL
ESCAPES). If argument char is given, it changes the escape
character to char. The default escape character is 0.
- -E[lang], --pretty-print[=lang]
- Pretty-print source code by creating a special input filter with the
states program. Optional argument lang specifies the
language to highlight, as a default states makes an educated
guess.
A description of supported highlighting languages and file formats can
be printed with command:
enscript --help-pretty-print
The highlighting rules are defined in the
`@prefix@/share/enscript/enscript.st' file which can be edited to
create highlighting definitions for new languages.
Note! You can't use your own input filters with this
option.
- -f name, --font=name
- Select font that is used for body text. The default body font is
Courier10, unless multicolumn landscape printing mode is
selected, in which case the default is Courier7.
Font specification name contains two parts: font's name and
font's size in points. For example "Times-Roman12" selects
"Times-Roman" font with size 12pt.
The font specification name can also be given in format
`name@ptsize', where font's name and point size are
separated by a `@' character. This allows enscript to use
fonts which contain digit characters in their names.
The font point size can also be given in format
width/height where width and height specify
the font's size in x- and y-directions. For example
"Times-Roman@10/12" selects 10 points wide and 12 points high
"Times-Roman" font.
Note! font sizes can be given as a decimal number. For example
"Times-Roman10.2" selects 10.2pt "Times-Roman" font.
- -F name, --header-font=name
- Select font for header texts.
- -g, --print-anyway
- Print file even if it contains binary data. Option is here only for
compatibility since enscript prints binary files anyway.
- -G, --fancy-header[=name]
- Print fancy page header name to top of each page. Option
-G specifies the default fancy header (see section
CONFIGURATION FILES to see how the default fancy header can be
changed).
- -h, --no-job-header
- Suppress printing of the job header page.
- -H[num], --highlight-bars[=num]
- Specify how high highlight bars are in lines. If num is not
given, the default value 2 is used. As a default, no highlight bars
are printed.
- -i num, --indent=num
- Indent every line num characters. The indentation can also be
specified in other units by appending an unit specifier after the
number. Possible unit specifiers and the corresponding units are:
- c
- centimeters
- i
- inches
- l
- characters (default)
- p
- PostScript points
- -I filter, --filter=filter
- Read all input files through input filter filter. Input filter
can be a single command or a command pipeline and it can refer to the
name of the input file with escape `%s'. The name of the input file
stdin can be changed with option `--filter-stdin'.
For example, the following command can be used to print file `foo.c'
by using only upper-case characters:
enscript --filter="cat %s | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z'" foo.c
And to highlight changes made to files since the last checkout:
enscript --filter="rcsdiff %s | diffpp %s" -e *.c
Note! To include string "%s" to the filter command, you must
write it as "%%s".
- -j, --borders
- Print borders around columns.
- -J title
- An alias for option -t, --title.
- -k, --page-prefeed
- Enable page prefeed.
- -K, --no-page-prefeed
- Disable page prefeed (default).
- -l, --lineprinter
- Emulate lineprinter. This option is a shortcut for options:
--lines-per-page=66, --no-header.
- -L num, --lines-per-page=num
- Print only num lines per each page.
- -m, --mail
- Send mail notification to user after print job has been completed.
- -M name, --media=name
- Select output media name. Enscript's default output
media is @MEDIA@.
- -n num, --copies=num
- Print num copies of each page.
- -N nl, --newline=nl
- Select the newline character. Possible values for nl are:
n (unix newline, 0xa hex) and r (mac newline, 0xd hex).
- -o file
- An alias for option -p, --output.
- -O, --missing-characters
- Print a listing of character codes which couldn't be printed.
- -p file, --output=file
- Leave output to file file. If file is `-', leave output
to stdout.
- -P name, --printer=name
- Spool output to the printer name.
- -q, --quiet, --silent
- Make enscript really quiet. Only fatal error messages are
printed to stderr.
- -r, --landscape
- Print in landscape mode; rotate page 90 degrees.
- -R, --portrait
- Print in portrait mode (default).
- -s num, --baselineskip=num
- Specify the baseline skip in PostScript points. Number num can
be given as a decimal number. When enscript moves from line to
line, current point y coordinate is moved (font point size +
baselineskip) points down. The default baseline skip is 1.
- -S key[:value], --statusdict=key[:value]
- Pass a statusdict definition to the generated PostScript output. If
no value is given, key key is removed from definitions.
Statusdict operators are implementation dependant; see printer's
documentation for details.
For example, command
enscript -Ssetpapertray:1 foo.txt
prints file foo.txt by using paper from the paper tray 1
(assuming that printer supports paper tray selection).
- -t title, --title=title
- Set banner page's job title to title. Option sets also the name
of the input file stdin.
- -T num, --tabsize=num
- Set tabulator size to num (default is 8).
- -u[text], --underlay[=text]
- Print string text under every page. Text's properties can be
changed with options --ul-angle, --ul-font,
--ul-gray, --ul-position and --ul-style.
If no text is given, no underlay is printed. This can be used
to remove underlay that was specified with the `Underlay'
configuration file option.
- -U num, --nup=num
- Print num logical pages on each output page (N-up printing).
- -v, --verbose[=level]
- Tell what enscript is doing.
- -V, --version
- Print enscript version and exit.
- -W [lang], --language[=lang]
- Generate output in language lang. Possible values for
lang are:
- PostScript
- generate PostScript (default)
- html
- generate HTML
- overstrike
- generate overstrikes (line printers, less)
- rtf
- generate RTF (Rich Text Format)
- -X name, --encoding=name
- Use input encoding name. Currently enscript supports
following encodings:
- 88591, latin1
- ISO-8859-1 (ISO Latin1) (enscript's default encoding).
- 88592, latin2
- ISO-8859-2 (ISO Latin2)
- 88593, latin3
- ISO-8859-3 (ISO Latin3)
- 88594, latin4
- ISO-8859-4 (ISO Latin4)
- 88595, cyrillic
- ISO-8859-5 (ISO Cyrillic)
- 88597, greek
- ISO-8859-7 (ISO Greek)
- ascii
- 7-bit ascii
- asciifise, asciifi, asciise
- 7-bit ascii with some scandinavian (fi, se) extensions
- asciidkno, asciidk, asciino
- 7-bit ascii with some scandinavian (dk, no) extensions
- ibmpc, pc, dos
- IBM PC charset
- mac
- Mac charset
- vms
- VMS multinational charset
- hp8
- HP Roman-8 charset
- koi8
- Adobe Standard Cyrillic Font KOI8 charset
- ps, PS
- PostScript font's default encoding
- pslatin1, ISOLatin1Encoding
- PostScript interpreter's `ISOLatin1Encoding'
- -z, --no-formfeed
- Turn off form feed character interpretation.
- -Z, --pass-through
- Pass through all PostScript and PCL files without any modifications.
This allows that enscript can be used as a lp filter.
PostScript files are recognized by looking up the `%!' magic cookie
from the beginning of the file. Note! Enscript recognized
also the Windoze damaged `^D%!' cookie.
PCL files are recognized by looking up the `^[E' or `^[%' magic
cookies from the beginning of the file.
- --color[=color]
- Set the pretty-printing color model to color. If no color
is specified, use color model emacs.
- --download-font=fontname
- Include the font description file (.pfa or .pfb file) of
the font fontname to the generated output.
- --filter-stdin=name
- Specify how stdin is shown to the input filter. The default
value is an empty string ("") but some programs require that
stdin is called something else, usually "-".
- --h-column-height=height
- Set the horizontal column height to be height PostScript
points. The option sets the formfeed type to
horizontal-columns.
- --help
- Print short help message and exit.
- --help-pretty-print
- Describe all supported --pretty-print languages and file
formats.
- --highlight-bar-gray=gray
- Specify the gray level which is used to print highlight bars.
- --list-media
- List the names of all known output media and exit successfully.
- --list-options
- List all options and their current values. Exit successfully.
- --margins=left:right:top:bottom
- Adjust page marginals to be exact left, right, top
and bottom PostScript points. Any of arguments can be left
empty in which case the default value is used.
- --mark-wrapped-lines[=style]
- Mark wrapped lines in the output with style style. Possible
values for style are:
- none
- do not mark them (default)
- plus
- print a plus (+) character to the end of each wrapped line
- box
- print a black box to the end of each wrapped line
- arrow
- print a small arrow to the end of each wrapped line
- --non-printable-format=format
- Specify how non-printable characters are printed. Possible values for
format are:
- caret
- caret notation: `^@', `^A', `^B', ...
- octal
- octal notation: `\000', `\001', `\002', ... (default)
- questionmark
- replace non-printable characters with a question mark `?'
- space
- replace non-printable characters with a space ` '
- --nup-xpad=num
- Set the page x-padding of the n-up printing to num
PostScript points. The default is 10 points.
- --nup-ypad=num
- Set the page y-padding of the n-up printing to num
PostScript points. The default is 10 points.
- --page-label-format=format
- Set page label format to format. Page label format specifies
how labels for the `%%Page:' PostScript comments are formatted.
Possible values are:
- short
- Print current pagenumber: `%%Page: (1) 1' (default)
- long
- Print current filename and pagenumber: `%%Page: (main.c: 1) 1'
- --ps-level=level
- Set the PostScript language level, that enscript uses for its
output, to level. The possible values are 1, and
2.
- --printer-options=options
- Pass extra options to the printer command.
- --rotate-even-pages
- Rotate each even-numbered page 180 degrees.
- --slice=num
- Print vertical slice num. Slices are vertical regions of input
files, new slice starts from the point where the line would otherwise
be wrapped to the next line. Slice numbers start from 1.
- --toc
- Print table of contents to the end of the print job.
- --word-wrap
- Wrap long lines from word boundaries.
- --ul-angle=angle
- Set underlay text's angle. As a default, angle is atan(-page_height,
page_width).
- --ul-font=name
- Select font for the underlay text. The default underlay font is
Times-Roman200.
- --ul-gray=num
- Print underlay text with gray value num (0 ... 1), the default
gray is .8.
- --ul-position=position_spec
- Set underlay text's starting position according to
position_spec. Position specification must be given in format:
`sign xpos sign ypos', where sign must
be `+' or `-'. Positive dimensions are measured from the lower left
corner and negative dimensions from the upper right corner. For
example, spec `+0-0' specifies the upper left corner and `-0+0'
specifies the lower right corner.
- --ul-style=style
- Set underlay text's style to style. Possible values for
style are:
- outline
- print outline underlay texts (default)
- filled
- print filled underlay texts
CONFIGURATION FILES
Enscript
reads configuration information from following sources (in this
order): command line options, environment variable ENSCRIPT,
user's personal configuration file ($HOME/.enscriptrc), site
configuration file (@prefix@/etc/enscriptsite.cfg) and system's
global configuration file (@prefix@/etc/enscript.cfg).
The configuration files have the following format:
Empty lines and lines starting with `#' are comments.
All other lines are option lines and have format:
OPTION [arguments ...].
Following options can be specified:
- AcceptCompositeCharacters: bool
- Specify whatever PostScript font's composite characters are accepted
as printable or should they be considered as non-existent. The
default value is false (0).
- AFMPath: path
- Specifies search path for the AFM files.
- AppendCtrlD: bool
- Specify if the Control-D (^D) character should be appended to the end
of the output. The default value is false (0).
- Clean7Bit: bool
- Specify how characters greater than 127 are printed. Value true (1)
generates 7-bit clean code by escaping all characters greater than 127
to the backslash-octal notation (default). Value false (0) generates
8-bit PostScript code leaving all characters untouched.
- DefaultEncoding: name
- Select the default input encoding. Encoding name name can be
one of the values of the -X, --encoding option.
- DefaultFancyHeader: name
- Select the default fancy header. Default header is used when option
-G is specified or option --fancy-header is given without
an argument. System-wide default is `enscript'.
- DefaultMedia: name
- Select the default output media.
- DefaultOutputMethod: method
- Select the default target to which generated output is send. Possible
values for method are:
- printer
- send output to printer (default)
- stdout
- send output to stdout
- DownloadFont: fontname
- Include the font description file of the font fontname to the
generated output.
- EscapeChar: num
- Specify the escape character for special escapes. The default value
is 0.
- FormFeedType: type
- Specify what to do when a formfeed character is encountered from the
input. Possible values for type are:
- column
- move to the beginning of the next column (default)
- page
- move to the beginning of the next page
- GeneratePageSize: bool
- Specify whether the PageSize page device setting is generated to
the PostScript output. The default value is true (1).
- HighlightBarGray: gray
- Specify the gray level which is used to print highlight bars.
- HighlightBars: num
- Specify how high highlight bars are in lines. The default value is 0
so no highlight bars are printed.
- LibraryPath: path
- Specifies enscript's library path that is used to lookup
various resources. Default path is:
`@prefix@/share/enscript:home/.enscript'. Where home is
the user's home directory.
- MarkWrappedLines: style
- Mark wraped lines in the output with style style. Possible
values for format are the same which can be given for the
--mark-wrapped-lines option.
- Media: name width height llx lly urx ury
- Add a new output media with name name. Media's physical
dimensions are width and height. Media's bounding box is
specified by points (llx, lly) and (urx, ury).
Enscript
prints all graphics inside media's bounding box.
User can select this media by giving option -M name.
- NoJobHeaderSwitch: switch
- Specify the spooler option to suppress the print job header. This
option is passed to the printer spooler when enscript's option
-h, --no-job-header is selected.
- NonPrintableFormat: format
- Specify how non-printable characters are printed. Possible values for
format are the same which can be given for the
--non-printable-format option.
- OutputFirstLine: line
- Set PostScript output's first line to line, the default value
is PS-Adobe-3.0. Since some printers do not like DSC levels
greater than 2.0, this option can be used to change the output first
line to something more suitable like %!PS-Adobe-2.0 or
%!.
- PageLabelFormat: format
- Set page label format to format. Possible values for
format are the same which can be given for the
--page-label-format option.
- PagePrefeed: bool
- Enable / disable page prefeed. The default is false (0).
- PostScriptLevel: level
- Set the PostScript language level, that enscript uses for its
output, to level. The possible values for level are the
same which can be given for the --ps-level option.
- Printer: name
- Names the printer to spool to.
- QueueParam: name
- The spooler command switch for the printer queue, e.g. -P in
lpr -Pps. This option can also be used to pass other flags to
the spooler command but they must be given before the queue switch.
- SetPageDevice: key[:value]
- Pass a page device definition to the generated PostScript output.
- Spooler: name
- Names printer spooler command. Enscript pipes generated
PostScript to command name.
- StatesColorModel: model
- Set the pretty-printing color model to model. Possible values
are blackwhite and emacs.
- StatesConfigFile: file
- Read pretty-printer states configuration from file file. The
default config file is `@prefix@/share/enscript/enscript.st'.
- StatesHighlightLevel: level
- Set the pretty-printing highlight level to level. Possible
values are none, light and heavy.
- StatesPath: path
- Define path for the states program.
- StatusDict: key[:value]
- Pass a statusdict definition to the generated PostScript output.
- TOCFormat: format
- Format table of contents entries with format string format.
Format string format can contain the same escapes which are used
to format header strings with the `%Format' special comment.
- Underlay: text
- Print string text under every page.
- UnderlayAngle: num
- Set underlay text's angle to num.
- UnderlayFont: fontspec
- Select font for the underlay text.
- UnderlayGray: num
- Print underlay text with gray value num.
- UnderlayPosition: position_spec
- Set underlay text's starting position according to
position_spec.
- UnderlayStyle: style
- Set underlay text's style to style.
CUSTOMIZATION
Users can create their own fancy headers by creating a header
description file and placing it in a directory which is in
enscript's library path. The name of the header file must be in
format: `headername.hdr'. Header can be selected by giving
option: --fancy-header=headername.
Header description file contains PostScript code that paints the
header. Description file must provide procedure do_header which
is called by enscript at the beginning of every page.
Header description file contains two parts: comments and code. Parts
are separated by a line containing text:
% -- code follows this line --
Enscript
copies only the code part of description file to the generated
PostScript output. The comments part can contain any data, it is not
copied. If separator line is missing, no data is copied to output.
Enscript
defines following constants which can be used in header description
files:
- d_page_w
- page width
- d_page_h
- page height
- d_header_x
- header lower left x coordinate
- d_header_y
- header lower left y coordinate
- d_header_w
- header width
- d_header_h
- header height
- d_footer_x
- footer lower left x coordinate
- d_footer_y
- footer lower left y coordinate
- d_footer_w
- footer width
- d_footer_h
- footer height
- d_output_w
- width of the text output area
- d_output_h
- height of the text output area
- user_header_p
- predicate which tells if user has defined his/her own header string:
true/false
- user_header_left_str
- if user_header_p is true, this is the left field of the
user supplied header string.
- user_header_center_str
- if user_header_p is true, this is the center field of the
user supplied header string
- user_header_right_str
- if user_header_p is true, this is the right field of the
user supplied header string
- HF
- standard header font (from -F, --header-font option).
This can be selected simply by invoking command: `HF setfont'.
- pagenum
- the number of the current page
- fname
- the full name of the printed file (/foo/bar.c)
- fdir
- the directory part of the file name (/foo)
- ftail
- file name without the directory part (bar.c)
- gs_languagelevel
- PostScript interpreter's language level (currently 1 or 2)
You can also use the following special comments to customize your
headers and to specify some extra options. Special comments are like
DSC comments but they start with a single `%' character; special
comments start from the beginning of the line and they have the
following syntax:
%commentname: options
Currently enscript support the following special comments:
- %Format: name format
- Define a new string constant name according to the format string
format. Format string start from the first non-space character
and it ends to the end of the line. Format string can contain general
`%' escapes and input file related `$' escapes. Currently following
escapes are supported:
- %%
- character `%'
- $$
- character `$'
- $%
- current page number
- $=
- number of pages in the current file
- $(VAR)
- value of the environment variable VAR.
- %c
- trailing component of the current working directory
- %C ($C)
- current time (file modification time) in `hh:mm:ss' format
- %d
- current working directory
- %D ($D)
- current date (file modification date) in `yy-mm-dd' format
- %D{string} ($D{string})
- format string string with the strftime(3) function.
`%D{}' refers to the current date and `$D{}' to the input
file's last modification date.
- %E ($E)
- current date (file modification date) in `yy/mm/dd' format
- %F ($F)
- current date (file modification date) in `dd.mm.yyyy' format
- %H
- document title
- $L
- number of lines in the current input file. This is valid only for the
toc entries, it can't be used in header strings.
- %m
- the hostname up to the first `.' character
- %M
- the full hostname
- %n
- the user login name
- $n
- input file name without the directory part
- %N
- the user's pw_gecos field up to the first `,' character
- $N
- the full input file name
- %t ($t)
- current time (file modification time) in 12-hour am/pm format
- %T ($T)
- current time (file modification time) in 24-hour format `hh:mm'
- %* ($*)
- current time (file modification time) in 24-hour format with seconds
`hh:mm:ss'
- $v
- the sequence number of the current input file
- $V
- the sequence number of the current input file in the `Table of
Contents' format: if the --toc option is given, escape expands
to `num-'; if the --toc is not given, escape expands to
an empty string.
- %W ($W)
- current date (file modification date) in `mm/dd/yy' format
All format directives except `$=' can also be given in format
escape width directive
where width specifies the width of the column to which the
escape is printed. For example, escape "$5%" will expand to something
like " 12". If the width is negative, the value will be printed
left-justified.
For example, the `emacs.hdr' defines its date string with the
following format comment:
%Format: eurdatestr %E
which expands to:
/eurdatestr (96/01/08) def
- %HeaderHeight: height
- Allocate height points space for the page header. The default
header height is 36 points.
- %FooterHeight: height
- Allocate height points space for the page footer. The default
footer height is 0 points.
According to Adobe's Document Structuring Conventions (DSC), all
resources needed by a document must be listed in document's prolog.
Since user's can create their own headers, enscript don't know
what resources those headers use. That's why all headers must contain
a standard DSC comment that lists all needed resources. For example,
used fonts can be listed with following comment:
%%DocumentNeededResources: font fontname1 fontname2
Comment can be continued to the next line with the standard
continuation comment:
%%+ font fontname3
SPECIAL ESCAPES
Enscript supports special escape sequences which can be used to
add some page formatting commands to ASCII documents. As a default,
special escapes interpretation is off, so all ASCII files print out as
everyone expects. Special escapes interpretation is activated by
giving option -e, --escapes to enscript.
All special escapes start with the escape character. The default
escape character is ^@ (octal 000); escape character can be changed
with option -e, --escapes. Escape character is
followed by escape's name and optional options and arguments.
Currently enscript supports following escapes:
- bggray
- change the text background color. Escape's syntax is:
^@bggray{gray}
where gray is the new text background gray value. The default
value is 1.0 (white).
- color
- change the text color. Escape's syntax is:
^@color{red green blue}
where color components red, green and blue are given
as a decimal numbers between 0 and 1.
- comment
- comment the rest of the line including the newline character.
Escape's syntax is:
^@comment text newline_character
- escape
- change the escape character. Escape's syntax is
^@escape{code}
where code is the decimal code of the new escape character.
- epsf
- inline EPS file to the document. Escape's syntax is:
^@epsf[options]{filename}
where options is an optional sequence of option characters and
values enclosed with brackets and filename is the name of the
EPS file.
If filename ends to the `|' character, then filename is
assumed to name a command that prints EPS data to its standard output.
In this case, enscript opens a pipe to the specified command
and reads EPS data from pipe.
Following options can be given for the epsf escape:
- c
- print image centered
- r
- print image right justified
- n
- do not update current point. Following output is printed to that
position where the current point was just before the epsf escape
- nx
- do not update current point x coordinate
- ny
- do not update current point y coordinate
- xnum
- move image's top left x coordinate num characters from
current point x coordinate (relative position)
- xnuma
- set image's top left x coordinate to column num (absolute
position)
- ynum
- move image's top left y coordinate num lines from current
line (relative position)
- ynuma
- set image's top left y coordinate to line num (absolute
position)
- hnum
- set image's height to num lines
- snum
- scale image with factor num
- sxnum
- scale image in x direction with factor num
- synum
- scale image in y direction with factor num
As a default, all dimensions are given in lines (vertical) and
characters (horizontal). You can also specify other units by
appending an unit specifier after number. Possible unit specifiers
and the corresponding units are:
- c
- centimeters
- i
- inches
- l
- lines or characters (default)
- p
- PostScript points
For example to print an image one inch high, you can specify height by
following options: h1i (1 inch), h2.54c (2.54 cm),
h72p (72 points).
- font
- select current font. Escape's syntax is:
^@font{fontname}
where fontname is a standard font specification. Special font
specification default can be used to select the default body
font (enscript's default or the one specified by the command
line option -f, --font).
- ps
- include raw PostScript code to the output. Escape's syntax is:
^@ps{code}
- shade
- highlight regions of text by changing the text background color.
Escape's syntax is:
^@shade{gray}
where gray is the new text background gray value. The default
value is 1.0 (white) which disables highlighting.
PAGE DEVICE OPTIONS
Page device is a PostScript level 2 feature that offers an uniform
interface to control printer's output device. Enscript
protects all page device options inside an if block so they have no
effect in level 1 interpreters. Although all level 2 interpreters
support page device, they do not have to support all page device
options. For example some printers can print in duplex mode and some
can not. Refer to the documentation of your printer for supported
options.
Here are some usable page device options which can be selected with
the -D, --setpagedevice option. For a complete listing,
see PostScript Language Reference Manual: section 4.11 Device
Setup.
- Collate boolean
- how output is organized when printing multiple copies
- Duplex boolean
- duplex (two side) printing
- ManualFeed boolean
- manual feed paper tray
- OutputFaceUp boolean
- print output `face up' or `face down'
- Tumble boolean
- how opposite sides are positioned in duplex printing
PRINTING EXAMPLES
Following printing examples assume that enscript uses the
default configuration. If default actions have been changed from the
configuration files, some examples will behave differently.
- enscript foo.txt
- Print file foo.txt to the default printer.
- enscript -Possu foo.txt
- Print file foo.txt to printer ossu.
- enscript -pfoo.ps foo.txt
- Print file foo.txt, but leave PostScript output to file
foo.ps.
- enscript -2 foo.txt
- Print file foo.txt to two columns.
- enscript -2r foo.txt
- Print file to two columns and rotate output 90 degrees (landscape).
- enscript -DDuplex:true foo.txt
- Print file in duplex (two side) mode (printer dependant).
- enscript -G2rE -U2 foo.c
- My default code printing command: gaudy header, two columns,
landscape, code highlighting, 2-up printing.
- enscript -E --color -Whtml --toc -pfoo.html *.h *.c
- A nice HTML report of your project's C source files.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
The environment variable ENSCRIPT can be used to pass default
options for enscript. For example, to select the default body
font to be Times-Roman 7pt, set the following value to the
ENSCRIPT environment variable:
- -fTimes-Roman7
-
The value of the ENSCRIPT variable is processed before the
command line options, so command line options can be used to overwrite
these defaults.
Variable ENSCRIPT_LIBRARY specifies the enscript's
library directory. It can be used to overwrite the build-in default
`@prefix@/share/enscript'.
RETURN VALUE
Enscript returns value 1 to the shell if any errors were
encountered. On successfull termination, the return code is
constucted from the following flags:
- 0
- no errors or warnings
- 2
- some lines were truncated or wrapped
- 4
- some characters were missing from the used fonts
- 8
- some characters were unprintable
FILES
@prefix@/share/enscript/*.hdr header files
@prefix@/share/enscript/*.enc input encoding vectors
@prefix@/share/enscript/enscript.pro PostScript prolog
@prefix@/share/enscript/*.afm AFM files for PostScript fonts
@prefix@/share/enscript/font.map index for the AFM files
@prefix@/share/enscript/enscript.st states definition file
@prefix@/etc/enscript.cfg system-wide configuration file
@prefix@/etc/enscriptsite.cfg site configuration file
~/.enscriptrc personal configuration file
~/.enscript/ personal resource directory
SEE ALSO
diffpp(1), ghostview(1), gs(1), lpq(1), lpr(1), lprm(1), states(1)
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