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19 Modified by Francisco Andrés Verdú <pandres@dragonet.es> for the grolbp
27 .\" Like TP, but if specified indent is more than half
28 .\" the current line-length - indent, use the default indent.
30 .ie \\n(.$=0:((0\\$1)*2u>(\\n(.lu-\\n(.iu)) .TP
33 .TH GROLBP @MAN1EXT@ "@MDATE@" "Groff Version @VERSION@"
35 grolbp \- groff driver for Canon CAPSL printers (LBP-4 and LBP-8 series laser printers).
44 .ie \\n(.$-1 .RI "[\ \fB\\$1\fP" "\ \\$2" "\ ]"
45 .el .RB "[\ " "\\$1" "\ ]"
52 .OP \-\-copies numcopies
54 .OP \-\-papersize paper_size
56 .OP \-\-orientation orientation
61 .RI "[\ " files\|.\|.\|. "\ ]"
68 that produces output in CAPSL and VDM format suitable for Canon LBP\-4 and
71 For compatibility with grolj4 there is an additional drawing command
75 Draw a rule (i.e.\ a solid black rectangle), with one corner at the current
76 position, and the diagonally opposite corner at the current position
79 Note that the whitespace between a one-letter option and its argument can be
80 omitted; on the other hand, there must be whitespace and/or an equal sign
81 (`=') between a long-name option and its argument.
85 .BI \-\-copies \ numcopies
93 Print the document with a landscape orientation.
97 .BI \-\-papersize \ paper_size
100 which must be a valid paper size description as indicated in the section
103 .BI \-o \ orientation
105 .BI \-\-orientation \ orientation
106 Print the document with
108 orientation, which must be `portrait' or `landscape'.
113 Print the version number.
117 .BI \-\-fontdir \ dir
120 for font and device description files.
125 Print a short help text.
127 The driver supports the Dutch, Swiss and Swiss-Narrow scalable typefaces,
128 each one in the Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold-Italic styles.
129 Additionally, the Courier and Elite monospaced typefaces at the sizes 8 and
130 12 points (for Courier) resp. 8 and 10 points (for Elite) are supported,
131 each one in the Regular, Bold and Italic styles.
133 The following chart summarizes the font names you can use to access these
137 tab(|) allbox center;
141 Typeface | Regular | Bold | Italic | Bold-Italic
142 Dutch | TR | TB | TI | TBI
143 Swiss | HR | HB | HI | HBI
144 Swiss Narrow | HNR | HNB | HNI | HNBI
145 Courier | CR | CB | CI |
146 Elite | ER | EB | EI |
150 The paper size can be set in the
152 file or with command line options to
154 If the paper size is specified both ways, the command line options take
155 precedence over the contents of the
157 file (this applies to the page orientation too).
159 To set the paper size in the
161 file, insert in that file a line containing
163 .IR desired_papersize ,
168 One of the recognized paper sizes: `a4', `letter', `legal' or `executive'.
170 A custom defined paper size, as described in the
171 .B CUSTOM PAPER SIZES
174 The name of a file (e.g.
176 whose first line must be the desired paper size in one of the above formats.
178 If there are various papersize lines in the
180 file, only the first valid one is used.
182 To set the paper size in the command line, add
185 .BI \-p \ desired_papersize
191 .BI \-\-papersize \ desired_papersize
198 is in the same format as in the
202 Paper sizes are case insensitive (i.e., `A4' is the same as `a4').
204 If no paper size is specified in the
206 file or the command line, a default size of A4 is used.
208 .SH CUSTOM PAPER SIZES
209 Custom defined paper sizes are in the form
210 .BI cust length x width
215 are the dimensions of the paper you want to to use, specified in printer
216 units (1/300 of an inch).
217 For instance, to print in a postcard sized paper which is two inches long
218 and four inches wide you can insert a line containing
221 .B papersize cust600x1200
224 at the beginning of the
228 As with the page size, the orientation of the printed page
234 file or with command line options.
235 It is also case insensitive.
237 To set the orientation in the
239 file, insert a line with the following content:
243 .RB [ portrait | landscape ]
246 As with paper sizes, only the first valid orientation command in the
250 To set the page orientation with command line options you can use the
254 option with the same parameters
263 option to force the pages to be printed in landscape.
266 .B @FONTDIR@/devlbp/DESC
267 Device description file.
269 .BI @FONTDIR@/devlbp/ F
270 Font description file for font
273 .BR groff (@MAN1EXT@),
274 .BR @g@troff (@MAN1EXT@),
275 .BR groff_out (@MAN5EXT@),
276 .BR groff_font (@MAN5EXT@),
277 .BR groff_char (@MAN7EXT@)