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Description
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a2ps is an Any to PostScript filter. Of course is process plain text
files, but also pretty prints quite a few popular languages (66).
Moreover it has the ability to delegate the processing of some files
to other filters (such as groff, texi2dvi, dvips, gzip etc.), what
allows a uniform treatment (n-up, page selection etc.) of
heterogeneous files.
As an example:
$ a2ps ogonkify.1 glibc.dvi.gz a2ps.texi -o demo.ps
[ogonkify.1 (roff, delegated to Groff): 3 pages on 2 sheets]
[glibc.dvi.gz (compressed, delegated to Gzip-a2ps): 601 pages on 301 sheets]
[a2ps.texi (texinfo, delegated to texi2dvi): 81 pages on 41 sheets]
[Total: 684 pages on 342 sheets] saved into the file `demo.ps'
It supports a wide number of encodings, and a very good handling of
Latin 2-6 should be noted, thanks to Ogonkify (by Juliusz Chroboczek
<jec@dcs.ed.ac.uk>). Needed fonts are automatically downloaded. The
interface is internationalized, the output is customizable, the
documentation is meant both for novices and experts, and there are as
many options as users had wishes (table of content, headings, virtual
page layout etc. etc.).
Some goodies are provided in the package:
- fixps fixes most common problems in PostScript files
- card pretty prints `--help' from programs
- psmandup eases Duplex printing on Simplex printers
- pdiff prints a comparison between two files
The full distribution of Ogonkify, by Juliusz Chroboczek, is also
included in the package. Ogonkify let's you fix deficient Latin 2-6
support in popular applications' PostScript (NetScape, StarOffice...).
Downloading
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a2ps is under GPL and can be found on its web page:
http://www.inf.enst.fr/~demaille/a2ps/
There is also a mailing list set up to discuss around a2ps. To
subscribe, send a mail to a2ps-request@inf.enst.fr with `subscribe' in
its body. Please do not use this address to report bugs, but write to
a2ps-bugs@inf.enst.fr.
Version 4.10.2
==============
Version 4.10.2 is a release. It supersedes versions 4.10 and 4.10.1.
It mainly brings a few bug fixes, especially in the configuration
process and in the documentation; new translations; and the new tool
FIXME.
Here is the top of the NEWS file:
Version 4.10.2
* Fixed installation of Ogonkify
* Contributions:
- pdiff (pretty diff) pretty prints diffs. Uses GNU diff, and GNU wdiff.
Version 4.10.1 April 22nd, 1998
* Updated Ogonkify.
* Translations:
- Swedish, thanks to Peter Nilsson.
- Portuguese, thanks to Pedro Miguel Marques Morais.
* Changed ``Macro Meta Sequence'' to ``Variable'', and ``Meta Sequence''
to ``Escape''
* Options:
- --variable is encouraged instead of --macro-meta-sequence
* Sheets:
- wdiff.ssh meant to be used on wdiff output.
- udiff.ssh for diff -u.
* file(1) is always called, even for `stdin'. Now it is safe to run
`cat file.ps | a2ps', or `cat file | a2ps --guess'.
People using versions prior to 4.10 are strongly encouraged to update.
In particular, the generation 4.8 is no longer maintained.
Authors
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a2ps is written by Akim.Demaille@inf.enst.fr and Miguel.Santana@st.com.
We hope you'll enjoy it!
--
Akim & Miguel
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