grolbp - Unix, Linux Command
NAME
grolbp - groff driver for Canon CAPSL printers (LBP-4 and LBP-8 series laser printers).
SYNOPSIS
grolpb
[ -l ]
[ --landscape ]
[ -v ]
[ --version ]
[ -c ]
[ --copies= ]
[ -p ]
[ --papersize= ]
[ -o ]
[ --orientation= ]
[ -w ]
[ --linewidth= ]
[ -F ]
[ --fontdir= ]
[ -h ]
[ --help ] [ files... ]
DESCRIPTION
grolbp is a driver for
groff that produces output in CAPSL and VDM format suitable for Canon LBP-4 and
LBP-8 printers.
For compatibility with grolj4 there is an additional drawing command
available:
Tag | Description |
\DR dh dv |
Draw a rule (i.e. a solid black rectangle), with one corner at the current
position, and the diagonally opposite corner at the current position
+(dh,dv). |
OPTIONS
Note that there can be whitespace between a one-letter option and its
argument; on the other hand, there must be whitespace and/or an equal sign
(=) between a long-name option and its argument.
Tag | Description |
-cnumcopies | |
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--copies=numcopies | |
Print
numcopies copies of each page.
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-l |
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--landscape | |
Print the document with a landscape orientation.
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-ppaper_size | |
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--papersize=paper_size | |
Set the paper size to
paper_size, which must be a valid paper size description as indicated in the section
PAPER SIZES. |
-oorientation | |
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--orientation=orientation | |
Print the document with
orientation orientation, which must be portrait or landscape.
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-wwidth |
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--linewidth=width | |
Set the default line thickness to
width thousandths of an em.
If this option isnt specified, the line thickness defaults to 0.04~em.
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-v |
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--version | |
Print the version number.
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-Fdir |
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--fontdir=dir | |
Prepend directory
dir/devname to the search path for font and device description files;
name is the name of the device, usually
lbp. |
-h |
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--help |
Print a short help text.
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TYPEFACES
The driver supports the Dutch, Swiss and Swiss-Narrow scalable typefaces,
each one in the Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold-Italic styles.
Additionally, the Courier and Elite monospaced typefaces at the sizes 8 and
12 points (for Courier) resp. 8 and 10 points (for Elite) are supported,
each one in the Regular, Bold and Italic styles.
The following chart summarizes the font names you can use to access these
fonts:
Typeface | Regular | Bold | Italic | Bold-Italic |
Dutch | TR | TB | TI | TBI |
PAPER SIZES
The paper size can be set in the
DESC file or with command line options to
grolbp. If the paper size is specified both ways, the command line options take
precedence over the contents of the
DESC file (this applies to the page orientation too).
See
groff_font(1)
how to set the paper dimensions in the
DESC file.
To set the paper size in the command line, add
-p paper-size
or
--papersize=paper-size
to the other
grolbp options, where
paper-size is in the same format as in the
DESC file.
If no paper size is specified in the
DESC file or the command line, a default size of A4 is used.
PAGE ORIENTATION
As with the page size, the orientation of the printed page
(portrait or
landscape) can be set in the
DESC file or with command line options.
It is also case insensitive.
To set the orientation in the
DESC file, insert a line with the following content:
orientation [portrait|landscape]
Only the first valid orientation command in the
DESC file is used.
To set the page orientation with command line options you can use the
-o or
--orientation option with the same parameters
(portrait or
landscape) as in the
DESC file.
Or you can use the
-l option to force the pages to be printed in landscape.
FONT FILE FORMAT
In addition to the usual commands described in
groff_font(5),
grolbp provides the command
lbpname which sets the font name sent to the printer when requesting this font.
The syntax of this command is:
lbpname printer_font_name
Tag | Description |
o
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For bitmapped fonts,
printer_font_name has the form
Nbase_fontname\(ra\(lafont_style\(ra
base_fontname is the font name as it appears in the printers font listings without the
first letter, up to (but not including) the font size.
font_style can be one of the letters
R, I, or
B, indicating the font styles Roman, Italic and Bold respectively.
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For instance, if the printers
font listing A shows font Nelite12I.ISO_USA, the corresponding entry in the font
description file is
lbpname NeliteI
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Note that you may need to modify
grolbp to add support for new bitmapped fonts, since the available font names and
font sizes of bitmapped fonts (as documented above) are hard-coded into the
program.
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o
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For scalable fonts,
printer_font_name is identical to the font name as it appears in the printers
font listing A. |
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For instance, to select the Swiss font in bold style, which appears in
the printers
font listing A as Swiss-Bold, the required
lbpname command line is
lbpname Swiss-Bold
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The argument of
lbpname is case sensitive.
FILES
Tag | Description |
/usr/share/groff/1.18.1.1/font/devlbp/DESC | |
Device description file.
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/usr/share/groff/1.18.1.1/font/devlbp/F | |
Font description file for font
F. |
/usr/share/groff/1.18.1.1/tmac/lbp.tmac | |
Macros for use with
grolbp. |
SEE ALSO
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