README.english
1==================== e2ps(EUC to PS) Vesion 4.34 08/21/2002
2 Tool for printing text files by ps
3 Copyright 1999-2002 Nobuyuki SHIRAKI (White Tools Presents)
4 Last change : Wed 21 August 2002 17:54:51
5
6 e2ps is a tool for printing Japanese EUC code text.
7 Because it processes mainly EUC files, I named this tool 'e'2ps.
8
9
10== How to install
11- arrange Makefile
12 You have to configure following values for your system.
13 E2PS_INST_DIR Set directory to install binaries.
14- run 'make' command
15 After configuration, run
16 make
17 make install
18 In E2PS_INST_DIR, e2ps and e2lpr(synbolic link to e2ps) are created.
19
20
21== How to use (simply)
22- e2ps [arguments] [filenames...]
23 filename and standard-input are both OK. The output is to standard-out
24 as postscript text.
25- e2lpr sends postscript text to the default printer directly.
26- e2ps -h shows arguments help.
27 frequently used arguments follows:
28
29 -p : portrait
30 -p2 : portrait 2 pages/paper (default)
31 -p4 : portrait 4 pages/paper
32 -pv4 : portrait 4 pages/paper vertical
33 Ex: 1 2
34 3 4
35 -l : landsacpe
36 -l2 : landscape 2 pages/paper
37 -l4 : landscape 4 pages/paper
38 -lv4 : landscape 4 pages/paper vertical
39 Ex: 1 3
40 2 4
41 -box : page frame line print
42 -size fontsize : fontsize (10.0)
43 -line line : max lines/page (66)
44 -nh : not print headers
45 -Pprinter : printer name
46 -h | --help : show this help
47 -v | --version : show version
48
49
50== Complex arguments
51- -af (default: Courier)
52- -abf (default: Courier-Bold)
53- -abif (default: Courier-BoldOblique)
54 Specify PostScript ASCII-fonts (bold, bold-italic).
55 You can read font-list with -fl argument, but every fonts can be used.
56 Available font is based on the printer.
57 Example:
58 -af Times-Roman print with Times-Roman
59
60- -afw (default: 0.6)
61- -afh (default: 1.0)
62- -kfw (default: 1.2)
63- -kfh (default: 1.0)
64 Specify scales of font-width and font-height.
65 -afw and -afh specify ASCII-font's width and height.
66 -kfw and -kfh specify KANJI-font's width and height.
67 A value over 1.0 of either -afh or -kfh is ignored.
68 Courier font width is 0.6 times as large as its height.
69 Kanji font width is equal to its height, but Kanji font is printed
70 with 1.2 times width. So default value is 1.2.
71 Example:
72 -afw 0.3 ASCII-font is printed with half width
73 -afw 1.2 ASCII-font is printed with 2 times width
74 -afh 0.5 ASCII-font is printed with half height
75 -afh 1.2 ASCII-font is printed normally
76 -kfw 1.0 KANJI-font is printed densely
77 -kfw 0.5 KANJI-font is printed with half width
78 -kfw 2.0 KANJI-font is printed with 2 times width
79 -kfh 0.5 KANJI-font is printed with half height
80 -kfh 1.2 KANJI-font is printed normally
81
82- -ohp
83 printing on OHP sheet with big size font (25.0) and without headers.
84
85- -date
86 Specifies date-character-string printed on top-left of a page.
87 Your printer can use EUC-font, you can specify EUC character strings.
88
89- -head
90 Specifies file-name-character-string printed on top-center of a page.
91 Your printer can use EUC-font, you can specify EUC character strings.
92
93- -page
94 Specifies page-character-string printed on top-right of a page.
95 ' specified-string + page-number ' is the print-style.
96 Your printer can use EUC-font, you can specify EUC character strings.
97
98
99== Chages
100- version 4.34
101 enabled Japanese header strings.
102 corrected bugs of LANG environment.
103- version 4.33
104 make process of big-size files much faster.
105- version 4.32
106 added functions of 4 pages/paper vertical printing.
107 added arguments:-pv4, -lv4
108- version 4.31
109 corrected a problem about 0 byte input.
110- version 4.30
111 added a function of setting font-width and font-height magnification.
112 added arguments: -afw, -afhm, -kfw, -kfh
113 changed portrait 2 pages/paper to portrait 1 in OHP printing.
114 changed process of KANJI code convertion.
115 corrected other problems.
116- version 4.29
117 corrected PowerPC arm s390's char architecture problem.
118 corrected SJIS problems.
119 corrected other problems.
120- version 4.28
121 corrected ASCII fonts arguments's problems.
122- version 4.27
123 corrected header fonts problems.
124- version 4.26
125 corrected Y2K problem again.
126 arrange sources a little.
127 became able to change space ratio between lines.
128- version 4.25
129 corrected help and library mistakes which are misprinting fonts.
130 corrected font size mistakes in ps-font.c
131- version 4.24
132 corrected the 'Copyright' expression.
133 corrected the argument '-box' problems.
134- version 4.23
135 became smaller especially for ps-font.c.
136- version 4.22
137 became able to print page box like a2ps.
138- version 4.21
139 corrected Y2K problem.
140- version 4.20
141 made English help etc.
142 changed EUC and JIS printing with argument.
143 output number of printing papers to stndard error.
144- version 4.11
145 became able to deal with Tektronix printers. (-DTEKTRO)
146- version 4.1
147 became able to deal with printers without EUC fonts. (-DJIS_PS)
148
149
150== Copyright
151 The copyright of 'e2ps' is according to GPL.
152
153
154== E-mail Address (Aug/2002)
155 If you want to use whole or part of e2ps, I wish you e-mail to me.
156 n-shiraki@mosk.tytlabs.co.jp
157 shiraki@mx9.freecom.ne.jp
158 'wt' and 'White Tools' mean the tools I made.
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