gipddecode(1)

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💖 gipddecode — the manual, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because today we're decoding a whole printer language and honestly? it's giving main character energy. this is the page for gipddecode(1), from the General Commands Manual. no cap, she's niche but she's iconic.

✨ NAME ✨

gipddecode — Decode a GIPD stream into human readable form.

(yeah that's it. short king. 🫶)

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

gipddecode [options] <gipd-file

literally just feed it a gipd file on stdin and it spills the tea in readable form. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so gipddecode decodes a Granite Image Printer Driver (GIPD) stream into human readable form. and for the lore girlies: Granite Systems was acquired by Monotype Imaging. corporate plot twist, we love to see it. 👑

and what even is a GIPD stream? it's the printer language used by the Lexmark X500 and the Dell 1125 MFP printers. yes, those printers. ancient artifacts. we stan anyway. 🖨️💖

🎀 COMMAND LINE OPTIONS 🎀

These are the options that can appear on the command line. (they're all cute, they all serve.)

  • -d basename — Basename of .pbm file for saving decompressed planes. like, you want the planes saved? give her a name, bestie. 🖼️
  • -h — Print hex file offsets. offsets but make them hexadecimal, we love a glow-up. ⭐
  • -o — Print file offsets. plain and simple, no hex, just vibes. 🦋
  • -D level — Set Debug level [0]. default is 0, so crank it up only if you're ready for the drama. 🙈

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Decode an GIPD stream file. watch and learn, bestie:

$ gipddecode -h x500-mono.prn
     0: OFST    0       len=128
    80: OFST    1       len=128
   100: OFST    2       len=128
   180: OFST    3       len=128
   200: OFST    4       len=128
        [SNIP]
 27d80: OFST    1275    len=128
 27e00: \033%-12345X@PJL SET DISPINFOWHILEPRINT=OFF
 27e2a: @PJL SET DISPATPAPERCHANG=OFF
 27e49: @PJL SET JAMRECOVERY=ON
 27e62: @PJL SET OUTPUTBLANKPAPER=OFF
 27e81: @PJL SET PRINTSLOWLY=OFF
 27e9b: @PJL SET REVERSEPRINT=OFF
 27eb6: \033%-12345X
 27ebf: GDIJ    len=108
        unk0=0, unk1=0, unk2=0, unk3=0, unk4=0
        unk5=16777221(0x1000005), unk6=0, unk7=0, unk8=0, paper=0
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
 27f37: GDIP    len=52
        nplane = 1, w254 = 4896, h254 = 6110
        132018de, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1000000, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
 27f77: GDIB     0      len=60 (0x3c)
 27fcb: GDIB     1      len=252 (0xfc)
 280df: GDIB     2      len=124 (0x7c)
 28173: GDIB     3      len=956 (0x3bc)
 28547: GDIB     4      len=1692 (0x69c)
 28bfb: GDIB     5      len=572 (0x23c)
 28e4f: GDIB     6      len=17084 (0x42bc)
 2d123: GDIB     7      len=18108 (0x46bc)
 317f7: GDIB     8      len=8508 (0x213c)
 3394b: GDIB     9      len=1756 (0x6dc)
 3403f: GDIB    10      len=1596 (0x63c)
 34693: GDIB    11      len=892 (0x37c)
 34a27: GDIB    12      len=2332 (0x91c)
 3535b: GDIB    13      len=8380 (0x20bc)
 3742f: GDIB    14      len=3452 (0xd7c)
 381c3: GDIB    15      len=60 (0x3c)
 38217: GDIB    16      len=1468 (0x5bc)
 387eb: GDIB    17      len=2076 (0x81c)
 3901f: GDIB    18      len=284 (0x11c)
 39153: GDIB    19      len=1660 (0x67c)
 397e7: GDIB    20      len=2908 (0xb5c)
 3a35b: GDIB    21      len=156 (0x9c)
 3a40f: GDIB    22      len=188 (0xbc)
 3a4e3: GDIB    23      len=220 (0xdc)
 3a5d7: GDIB    24      len=60 (0x3c)
 3a62b: PIDG
 3a637: JIDG
Total Size = 75843 (0x12843)

look at her go. OFST, GDIJ, GDIP, GDIB, PIDG, JIDG — a whole alphabet soup of printer internals, decoded and served fresh. 🔥

💜 FILES 💜

  • /usr/bin/gipddecode

that's where she lives. come visit. 🏠✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Rick Richardson <rick.richardson@comcast.net>

the legend, the moment, the blueprint. show some respect. 🫶

okay that's the whole page!! 💖 no sections skipped, no options dropped, every single byte of the original accounted for — because decoding manuals is literally the same energy as decoding GIPD streams: keep all the details, bestie. 🎀

and that's a wrap on gipddecode(1), from the General Commands Manual. iykyk. go decode something iconic. 🦋✨🌸

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