GJOTS2LPR(1)

📦 version 3.1.9, in ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 NAME 💖

gjots2lpr — export gjots2 or other txt files to PDF or PS 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

gjots2lpr [ -124fhmptv ] [ filename ... ]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Okay so bestie, here's the whole vibe: gjots2lpr prints a text file for you — and like, it tries to do it the fancy way, using postscript or PDF plus whatever pre-viewers and printer dialogs it can find lying around. It goes looking for utilities on your system and just uses whatever it can actually find. Resourceful queen behavior honestly. 👑

And if you don't hand it a filename? No worries, it just prints from STDIN. Periodt.

Here are the flags, no gatekeeping:

  • -1 — 1 page per sheet
  • -2 — 2 page per sheet
  • -4 — 4 page per sheet
  • -f FORMATTER — use FORMATTER, which is one of a2ps, enscript or mpage
  • -m MEDIA — paper size (the default is A4)
  • -p — convert to PDF rather than PS
  • -t — stick to ASCII text, do not convert to postscript
  • -v — verbose operation (it tells you everything, main character energy ✨)

🌈 ENVIRONMENT PARAMETERS 🌈

These environment parameters are recognised, and they come with default values, so you're never left on read:

  • GJOTS_LPR — "xpp", "gtklp", "kprinter" or "lpr"
  • GJOTS_TXT2PS — "a2ps --medium=A4 --margin=1 --header --center-title='' -2 --output=-", "enscript --borders --output=- --media=A4 -2 --header='%D %T||Page $% of $='" or "mpage -bA4 -X'' -f -2"
  • GJOTS_PS2PDF — ps2pdf
  • GJOTS_PSVIEWER — "evince", "kghostview", "kpdf", "ggv" or "gv"
  • GJOTS_PDFVIEWER — "evince", "acroread", "kpdf" or "xpdf -z page"
  • GJOTS_PRETTY — "pr -o 1 -T" or "cat"
  • GJOTS_TXTVIEWER — "Xdialog --ok-label Print --textbox - 80 120" or "xmessage -buttons Cancel:1,Print:0 -file -"

and that's the whole page, bestie 💅✨

This one's gjots2lpr 2.3.15, dated September 2011 — yeah, she's been iconic for a minute, we love a legacy queen 👑🌸 no cap, go print something cute 🫶

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