GPR(1)

📦 version 0.15deb, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy

💖 NAME 💖

gpr — it's a graphical frontend for lpr. bestie, it's giving printer-with-a-glow-up energy 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

gpr [-h] [--help] [-P <printer>] [-J <job name>] [-r] [-n] [-p <flag>]
[filename]...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so gpr is a graphical interface to lpr that gives you easy configuration of printer-specific options 🎀. the way it works is iconic: gpr interfaces with a PostScript printer's PPD file to build you a whole user-interface of configurable options. and then, based on what you pick, the device-specific option code gets inserted into the PostScript job and sent off to the printer 🚀.

so like... you can use it to tell the printer to duplex or staple the print job, or tell it which paper tray to draw paper from. main character printer behaviour, fr fr 👑

NOTE: gpr will detect if the file you're printing is postscript, and if it's not, it will call a2ps to preprocess it before sending it to ppdfilt and to lpr. no cap. it just does that for you 🫶

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

gpr accepts the following options:

  • -h, --help — show summary of options. the classic "help me bestie" move 🙈
  • -P — specify a destination printer 🖨️
  • -d — enable debugging output. for when you wanna see all the receipts 🔍
  • -J — lpr option: job name to print on burst page
  • -r — lpr option: remove the files upon completion of spooling 🧹
  • -n — gpr option: print the command line rather than executing the command. it's the "just show me the fit, don't actually wear it" option 💀
  • -p — gpr option: use ppdfilt: 0 = never, 1 = always, 2 = with non-default PPD

⭐ OTHER INFO ⭐

the webpage for the GNULpr suite is at http://lpr.sf.org 🌈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

that's the whole page, bestie — GPR(1), straight out of the General Commands Manual. go print something cute ✨🦋🌸💖

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