APSPREVIEW(1)

✨ APSPREVIEW(1) ✨

okay bestie, listen up 💖 this is a General Commands Manual page — the apspreview one — and it's literally about peeking at your print job before you commit to wasting paper. icon behaviour tbh.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

apspreview — preview PostScript file(s) as generated by apsfilter 🦋

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💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

apspreview [-Pqueue] [-Zoptions] [input...]
apspreview [-h]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So with apspreview you can make a PostScript representation of the file(s) you're about to print, so you can check it before you actually print it. no more printing 400 pages of vibes and regret 💀

Your file(s) get converted to PostScript according to the queue-specific configuration, and after that you'll be able to print all or some pages from your PostScript viewer application — that's gv, kghostview or ghostview. pick your fighter 💖

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h — show the help screen 🫶 (she's helpful!)
• -Pqueue — select a printer queue (different from the default one) 👑
• -Zoptions — use apsfilter command line options (comma-separated list) ⭐
• input... — input file(s) — default is stdin 🌈

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⚠️ NOTES ⚠️

If you use the -P option, please remember to pass the same printer queue on to the lpr(1) command. consistency is the moment, fr fr 💅

Be careful if your printer queue configuration includes a setting to create multiple pages per sheet (PS_NUP=2, PS_NUP=4 or PS_NUP=8). In order to make sure that apsfilter(1) does not repeat n-up printing, use the 1pps command line option when actually printing the file. 🚨 like, do not skip this step, bestie.

apsprepreview — wait no, apspreview 😭 — only works correctly with entries in /etc/printcap that have been created by /usr/share/apsfilter/SETUP. All configuration settings will be copied from the relevant apsfilterrc files. iykyk 🧚

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🦋 FILES 🦋

• /etc/printcap — printer capability data base
• /usr/share/apsfilter/bin/apsfilter — apsfilter script
• /usr/bin/aps2file — tool to save apsfilter output to a file

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

apsfilter(1), aps2file(1), apsfilter-bug(1), apsfilterrc(5), printcap(5)

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💀 BUGS 💀

See apsfilter software center — http://www.apsfilter.org/ — for new versions, bugfixes and known bugs. 👑

Please use the new tool apsfilter-bug(1) to release bug- or problem reports. It automatically presents you a form in an editor window which asks you some standard questions. If you save and quit the editor session, then this report is sent automatically via e-mail to the proper apsfilter mailinglist. slay, automated. ✨

If apsfilter fails to print something, or prints it in a way you wouldn't expect, and you want to report an apsfilter error, then please save the debugging output of one print session using the new aps2file(1) utility by typing:

aps2file -D -Z options file > /dev/null 2> file.debug

and include the debugging output in the file file.debug into the edit session of the apsfilter-bug utility, so that it is included into the mail to the apsfilter mailinglist. 🫶

Please note that you need to run /bin/sh (Bourne Shell), bash or a compatible shell, so that the above mentioned output redirection works. Under C-shell (/bin/csh) or tcsh it wouldn't work. 😭 If you don't know, then simply make sure you use the Bourne shell by typing /bin/sh or bash, then you should have no problems with redirection of stdout and stderr (> /dev/null 2> file.debug).

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📖 DOCUMENTATION 📖

See official apsfilter homepage http://www.apsfilter.org/handbook.html — the Apsfilter Handbook, including the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). 🌈

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🌸 USER FORUM 🌸

Please send questions to the official apsfilter help channel apsfilter-help@apsfilter.org. The above section BUGS and the file HOWTO-BUGREPORTS tell you how to report bugs. If you want to know how to troubleshoot your apsfilter installation, please read the manpage aps2file(1) and apsfilter-bug(1) as well as the Apsfilter Handbook carefully. bestie, read the handbook. it's giving prepared. 💅

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⭐ HISTORY ⭐

The apsprepreview manpage — sorry, the apspreview manpage 😭 — has been written by Michael Loßin <phallobst@web.de> and first appeared in apsfilter V 7.1.0. iconic origin story 🎀

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one shipped with the Debian build, dated Dec 27, 2001 — vintage but still serving. periodt. 👑✨