2 .TH GROLBP @MAN1EXT@ "@MDATE@" "groff @VERSION@"
4 grolbp \- groff driver for Canon CAPSL printers (LBP-4 and LBP-8 \
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46 .OP \-F font-directory
54 .BI \-\-copies= num-copies\c
56 .BI \-\-fontdir= font-directory\c
60 .BI \-\-linewidth= width\c
62 .BI \-\-orientation= orientation\c
64 .BI \-\-papersize= paper-size\c
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90 that produces output in CAPSL and VDM format suitable for Canon LBP-4
95 For compatibility with
96 .BR grolj4 (@MAN1EXT@)
97 there is an additional drawing command available:
102 (i.e., a solid black rectangle),
103 with one corner at the current position,
104 and the diagonally opposite corner at the current
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113 Note that there can be whitespace between a one-letter option and its
115 on the other hand, there must be whitespace and/or an equal sign
116 (\(oq=\(cq) between a long-name option and its argument.
120 .BI \-c " num-copies"
122 .BI \-\-copies= num-copies
129 .BI \-F " font-directory"
131 .BI \-\-fontdir= font-directory
133 .RI font-directory /dev name
134 to the search path for font and device description files;
136 is the name of the device, usually
144 Print a short help text.
151 Print the document with a landscape orientation.
155 .BI \-o " orientation"
157 .BI \-\-orientation= orientation
158 Print the document with
160 orientation, which must be \(oqportrait\(cq or \(oqlandscape\(cq.
164 .BI \-p " paper-size"
166 .BI \-\-papersize= paper-size
167 Set the paper size to
169 which must be a valid paper size description as indicated in section
170 \[lq]Paper Sizes\[rq], below.
177 Print the version number.
183 .BI \-\-linewidth= width
184 Set the default line thickness to
186 thousandths of an em.
188 If this option isn't specified, the line thickness defaults to 0.04\~em.
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195 The driver supports the Dutch, Swiss and Swiss-Narrow scalable
196 typefaces, each one in the Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold-Italic styles.
198 Additionally, the Courier and Elite monospaced typefaces at the sizes 8
199 and 12 points (for Courier) resp.\& 8 and 10 points (for Elite) are
200 supported, each one in the Regular, Bold and Italic styles.
204 The following chart summarizes the font names you can use to access
210 tab(|) allbox center;
214 Typeface | Regular | Bold | Italic | Bold-Italic
215 Dutch | TR | TB | TI | TBI
216 Swiss | HR | HB | HI | HBI
217 Swiss Narrow | HNR | HNB | HNI | HNBI
218 Courier | CR | CB | CI |
219 Elite | ER | EB | EI |
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227 The paper size can be set in the
229 file or with command-line options to
231 If the paper size is specified both ways, the command-line options take
232 precedence over the contents of the
234 file (this applies to the page orientation too).
239 .BR groff_font (@MAN5EXT@)
240 how to set the paper dimensions in the
246 To set the paper size in the command line, add
255 .BI \-\-papersize= paper-size
262 is in the same format as in the
268 If no paper size is specified in the
270 file or the command line, a default size of A4 is used.
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277 As with the page size, the orientation of the printed page
283 file or with command-line options.
285 It is also case insensitive.
289 To set the orientation in the
291 file, insert a line with the following content:
295 .RB [ portrait | landscape ]
299 Only the first valid orientation command in the
305 To set the page orientation with command-line options you can use the
309 option with the same parameters
318 option to force the pages to be printed in landscape.
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325 In addition to the usual commands described in
326 .BR groff_font (@MAN5EXT@),
330 which sets the font name sent to the printer when requesting this font.
332 The syntax of this command is:
345 .RI N\(la base_fontname \(ra\(la font_style \(ra
349 is the font name as it appears in the printers font listings without the
350 first letter, up to (but not including) the font size.
352 can be one of the letters
357 indicating the font styles Roman, Italic and Bold respectively.
360 For instance, if the printer's
362 shows font \(oqNelite12I.ISO_USA\(cq, the corresponding entry in the
363 font description file is
370 Note that you may need to modify
372 to add support for new bitmapped fonts, since the available font names
373 and font sizes of bitmapped fonts (as documented above) are hard-coded
379 is identical to the font name as it appears in the printer's
380 .IR "font listing A" .
383 For instance, to select the \(oqSwiss\(cq font in bold style, which
384 appears in the printer's
386 as \(oqSwiss-Bold\(cq, the required
391 .B lbpname Swiss-Bold
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407 A list of directories in which to search for the
409 directory in addition to the default ones.
412 .BR @g@troff (@MAN1EXT@)
414 .BR \%groff_font (@MAN5EXT@)
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423 .I @FONTDIR@/devlbp/DESC
424 Device description file.
427 .IR @FONTDIR@/devlbp/ F
428 Font description file for font
432 .I @MACRODIR@/lbp.tmac
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441 .BR groff (@MAN1EXT@),
442 .BR @g@troff (@MAN1EXT@),
443 .BR groff_out (@MAN5EXT@),
444 .BR groff_font (@MAN5EXT@),
445 .BR groff_char (@MAN7EXT@)
448 .\" Restore compatibility mode (for, e.g., Solaris 10/11).
456 .\" vim: set filetype=groff: