paps (1)

paps [options] files...

paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves through the pango ft2 backend.

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

--landscape

Landscape output. Default is portrait.

--columns=cl

Number of columns output. Default is 1.

Please notice this option isn't related to the terminal length as in a "80 culums terminal".

--font=desc

Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12.

--rtl

Do right to left (RTL) layout.

--paper ps

Choose paper size. Known paper sizes are legal, letter and A4. Default is A4.

Postscript points

Each postscript point equals to 1/72 of an inch. 36 points are 1/2 of an inch.

--bottom-margin=bm

Set bottom margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

--top-margin=tm

Set top margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

--left-margin=lm

Set left margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

--right-margin=rm

Set right margin. Default is 36 postscript points.

--gutter-width=gw

Set gutter width. Default is 40 postscript points.

--help

Show summary of options.

--header

Draw page header for each page.

--markup

Interpret the text as pango markup.

--lpi

Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing.

--cpi

Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size.

--stretch-chars

Indicates that characters should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops behaviour.

paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <[email protected]>.

This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).