2 .\" The above line should force the use of tbl as a preprocessor
3 .\" vim: set syntax=nroff :
4 .\" The above line should set vim into nroff mode
5 .TH GROLBP @MAN1EXT@ "@MDATE@" "Groff Version @VERSION@"
7 grolbp \- groff driver for Canon CAPSL printers (LBP-4 and LBP-8 \
8 series laser printers).
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30 Modified by Francisco Andrés Verdú <pandres@dragonet.es> for the grolbp
42 .\" Like TP, but if specified indent is more than half
43 .\" the current line-length - indent, use the default indent.
45 . ie \\n(.$=0:((0\\$1)*2u>(\\n(.lu-\\n(.iu)) .TP
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61 .ie \\n(.$-1 .RI "[\ \fB\\$1\fP" "\\$2" "\ ]"
62 .el .RB "[\ " "\\$1" "\ ]"
70 .OP \-\-copies= numcopies
72 .OP \-\-papersize= paper_size
74 .OP \-\-orientation= orientation
76 .OP \-\-linewidth= width
81 .RI "[\ " files\|.\|.\|. "\ ]"
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94 that produces output in CAPSL and VDM format suitable for Canon LBP\-4 and
99 For compatibility with grolj4 there is an additional drawing command
104 Draw a rule (i.e.\ a solid black rectangle), with one corner at the current
105 position, and the diagonally opposite corner at the current position
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113 Note that there can be whitespace between a one-letter option and its
114 argument; on the other hand, there must be whitespace and/or an equal sign
115 (\[oq]=\[cq]) between a long-name option and its argument.
120 .BI \-\-copies= numcopies
129 Print the document with a landscape orientation.
134 .BI \-\-papersize= paper_size
135 Set the paper size to
137 which must be a valid paper size description as indicated in the section
143 .BI \-\-orientation= orientation
144 Print the document with
146 orientation, which must be \[oq]portrait\[cq] or \[oq]landscape\[cq].
151 .BI \-\-linewidth= width
152 Set the default line thickness to
154 thousandths of an em.
156 If this option isn\[aq]t specified, the line thickness defaults to 0.04\~em.
162 Print the version number.
170 to the search path for font and device description files;
172 is the name of the device, usually
179 Print a short help text.
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186 The driver supports the Dutch, Swiss and Swiss-Narrow scalable typefaces,
187 each one in the Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold-Italic styles.
189 Additionally, the Courier and Elite monospaced typefaces at the sizes 8 and
190 12 points (for Courier) resp.\& 8 and 10 points (for Elite) are supported,
191 each one in the Regular, Bold and Italic styles.
195 The following chart summarizes the font names you can use to access these
201 tab(|) allbox center;
205 Typeface | Regular | Bold | Italic | Bold-Italic
206 Dutch | TR | TB | TI | TBI
207 Swiss | HR | HB | HI | HBI
208 Swiss Narrow | HNR | HNB | HNI | HNBI
209 Courier | CR | CB | CI |
210 Elite | ER | EB | EI |
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218 The paper size can be set in the
220 file or with command line options to
222 If the paper size is specified both ways, the command line options take
223 precedence over the contents of the
225 file (this applies to the page orientation too).
230 .BR groff_font (@MAN5EXT@)
231 how to set the paper dimensions in the
237 To set the paper size in the command line, add
246 .BI \-\-papersize= paper-size
253 is in the same format as in the
259 If no paper size is specified in the
261 file or the command line, a default size of A4 is used.
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268 As with the page size, the orientation of the printed page
274 file or with command line options.
276 It is also case insensitive.
280 To set the orientation in the
282 file, insert a line with the following content:
286 .RB [ portrait | landscape ]
290 Only the first valid orientation command in the
296 To set the page orientation with command line options you can use the
300 option with the same parameters
309 option to force the pages to be printed in landscape.
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316 In addition to the usual commands described in
317 .BR groff_font (@MAN5EXT@),
321 which sets the font name sent to the printer when requesting this font.
323 The syntax of this command is:
336 .RI N\(la base_fontname \(ra\(la font_style \(ra
340 is the font name as it appears in the printers font listings without the
341 first letter, up to (but not including) the font size.
343 can be one of the letters
348 indicating the font styles Roman, Italic and Bold respectively.
351 For instance, if the printer\[aq]s
353 shows font \[oq]Nelite12I.ISO_USA\[cq], the corresponding entry in the
354 font description file is
361 Note that you may need to modify
363 to add support for new bitmapped fonts, since the available font names and
364 font sizes of bitmapped fonts (as documented above) are hard-coded into the
370 is identical to the font name as it appears in the printer\[aq]s
371 .IR "font listing A" .
374 For instance, to select the \[oq]Swiss\[cq] font in bold style, which
375 appears in the printer\[aq]s
377 as \[oq]Swiss-Bold\[cq], the required
382 .B lbpname Swiss-Bold
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399 A list of directories in which to search for the
401 directory in addition to the default ones.
404 .BR @g@troff (@MAN1EXT@)
406 .BR \%groff_font (@MAN5EXT@)
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415 .B @FONTDIR@/devlbp/DESC
416 Device description file.
419 .BI @FONTDIR@/devlbp/ F
420 Font description file for font
424 .B @MACRODIR@/lbp.tmac
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433 .BR groff (@MAN1EXT@),
434 .BR @g@troff (@MAN1EXT@),
435 .BR groff_out (@MAN5EXT@),
436 .BR groff_font (@MAN5EXT@),
437 .BR groff_char (@MAN7EXT@)
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