u2ps(1)

u2ps1

Tool to convert utf-8 text to postscript

Usage

u2ps [options] [files]

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the u2ps command.

u2ps is a program to generate PostScript output from text files encoded using the UTF-8 charset.

The program reads its input from the given files and sends the PostScript result to the printer, to save the output to a file don't forget the -o option (if you want to print to standard output you use /dev/stdout as the output file).

Options

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

-?, --help

Show summary of options

-v, --version

Show version of the program

-o, --output=FILE

Specify the output filename

-X, --encoding=ENCODING

Set encoding of the input

--gpfamily=FAMILYNAME

Specify libgnomeprint font family name (the available fonts can be known executing the command fc-list, a good option if the default is not good is "Monospace")

--mail

Parse input file as mail

-t, --title=TITLE

Set the content title

--force-text

Disable gzip/bzip2 autodetection

Releases

5 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0–7

Author

u2ps was written by Yukihiro Nakai <[email protected]>.

This manual page was written by Sergio Talens-Oliag <[email protected]> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

From gnome-u2ps 0.0.4-4.2 in Debian 7 (Wheezy). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.