GPG-KEY2PS(1)

🎀 GPG-KEY2PS — the girlies' guide to printing fingerprints

okay so bestie, welcome to gpg-key2ps(1) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section. she's a little Perl script with big keysigning-party energy, and honestly? iconic. 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

gpg-key2ps — generates a PS file from a GnuPG keyring 🖨️✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gpg-key2ps [-r revoked-style] [-p papersize] [-1] [-s] keyid-or-name [ ... ]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so basically, gpg-key2ps generates a PostScript file with your OpenPGP key fingerprint on it, repeated as many times as it fits — which is exactly what you want for keysigning parties 🎉. the only argument is the same thing you'd pass to GPG's list-keys command, so either a key-id or a (partial) name. the PS data goes to stdout, no cap. 🫶

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🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

• -p, --paper-size paper-size — pick your output paper size! the default is to peek into /etc/papersize, or A4 if libpaper isn't installed. 📄
• -s, --show-subkeys — turns on subkey info so it gets printed on the slips. ngl, subkey info is normally not relevant to the key signing process, so it's off unless you ask. 🙈
• -r, --revoked-style revoked-style — how do we mark revoked UIDs and subkeys? five styles, bestie:
  • hide — don't show at all (this is the default),
  • show — show normally,
  • grey — display in 50% grey,
  • note — add "[revoked]", and
  • strike — strike through.
• -1 — print only one column of paper slips instead of the default two. lowkey a lifesaver for keys with long UIDs that otherwise won't fit. 📏
• keyid — the keyids to print. multiple can be separated by spaces. 👑
• -h, --help — print usage and exit. classic.
• -v, --version — print version and exit. slay.

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

• HOME — the default home directory. 🏠
• GNUPGBIN — the gpg binary. Default: "gpg".
• GNUPGHOME — the default working directory for gpg. Default: "$HOME/.gnupg". 🗂️

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• gpg(1) — GNU Privacy Guard. the main character, fr.
• gpg-key2latex(1) — like gpg-key2ps, but produces LaTeX output instead. same vibe, different font. ✨
• https://www.debian.org/events/materials/business-cards/ — gpg-key2ps prints plain fingerprint slips. if you're looking for something more stylish, go look at these latex templates for business cards that also include fingerprints. it's giving glow-up. 💅

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💖 AUTHORS AND COPYRIGHT 💖

• (c) 2001-2005 Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>
• (c) 2005-2008 Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@kinkhorst.com>
• (c) 2005-2008 Christoph Berg <cb@df7cb.de>

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okay that's the whole page, bestie, nothing skipped, every flag accounted for 🫶 go print some fingerprints and have the cutest keysigning party ever. 🎀

made by perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-02-09 — and that's on periodt. 💜