fixnt(1)

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version 4.15.7 · 2 versions
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fixnt(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Debian manual page for fixnt, living its best life in section 1 of the manual. yes, it's a filter, and yes, it's the Windows NT postscript printer driver's emotional support bestie. let's go 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

fixnt — a filter for the Windows NT postscript printer driver. that's the whole vibe. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

fixnt < BADFILE.ps > GOODFILE.ps

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea ☕: the Windows NT postscript driver has a tendency to make broken postscript files, and those files are straight-up incompatible with psutils. it's giving messy. not iconic of it.

fixnt is the filter that fixes these problems, which means you can actually use psnup(1) afterwards. glow-up complete ✨

the filter takes the broken postscript file on stdin, and outputs a fixed postscript file on stdout. that's it. that's the whole thing.

it has no other form for invocation and takes no options on the command-line. periodt. 💅

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • fixnt takes no options. not one. zero. the options section is empty and honestly it's thriving. 🫶

😭 BUGS 😭

not me finding a bug in the bug-fixer 💀

fixnt does not check for NTPSOct94.

for a workaround, use a sed(1) command to replace 'NTPSOct94' with 'NTPSOct95', like so:

sed 's/NTPSOct94/NTPSOct95/g'

this is particularly important for Windows NT 3.5 users. like, especially for y'all. don't skip this one bestie 🙈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

fixnt was written by the iconique trio:

  • Holger Bauer <Holger.Bauer@topmail.de>
  • Michael Rath <rath@itsm.uni-stuttgart.de>
  • Akim Demaille <demaille@inf.enst.fr>

📢 REPORTING BUGS 📢

report bugs to the Authors, but avoid sending large postscript files. pls. respectfully. our inboxes cannot handle that much main character energy 💀

patches are always welcome; send to <bauer@itsm.uni-stuttgart.de>. we love a contribution era 🫶✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie! this one came from a2ps, dated February 2003 — so yeah, it's been out here fixing NT postscript chaos since before some of us could walk. slay forever 👑💖 no cap.

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