IMPOSE(1)

📦 version 0.2, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💅 IMPOSE(1) — bestie edition 💅

okay so. impose is a little icon and it's here to do two-up printing of DSC compliant postscript. 🎀 (yes, "complient" in the original, we don't gatekeep typos here, but the vibe is compliant DSC postscript.)

and here's the part that makes it actually slay: it makes an effort to remove white space from the printout by probing the original postscript for the bounding box of the printed area. 🔍✨ like it literally goes in and finds out where the ink actually is.

the result? the output is much more esthetic than a simplistic layout of non-cropped original papers. no cap. it's giving "I did my makeup in five minutes and still ate." 💄

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

impose [-help] [-letter] [-height h] [-width w] [-scale s ] [-noscale ]
       [-pages p ] [-xm x ] [-xrm x ] [-xlm x ] [-ym y ] [-gutter ]
       [-noglue ] [-bbox b1,b2,b3,b4 ] [-noevenodd ]
       [-evenbbox b1,b2,b3,b4 ] [-oddbbox b1,b2,b3,b4 ] [-lastbbox ]
       [-stdout ] [-rtl ] postscript.file

she takes exactly one little guy at the end: postscript.file 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

ngl this manual page documents impose briefly. that's the whole assignment. if you want the real tea, run it with -help and it will hand you a description of the options. 👑

lowkey a "read the docs by running the thing" situation. we love a self-sufficient icon. 💁♀️

and the lore: this manual page was written for the Debian(TM) distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. so basically we stepped in and wrote it ourselves because somebody had to. main character energy fr fr. 😭💖

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go bother these sisters:

  • bboxx (1)
  • fixtd (1)
  • psbl (1)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com> for the Debian(TM) system (but may be used by others). periodt. permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. 📜✨

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Yaroslav Halchenko

  • Author. 🫶

Copyright © 2003 Yaroslav Halchenko

okay bye bestie, that's the whole page 💖

this one's from [FIXME: source] and it's dated February 4, 2004, so yeah she's an elder but she still serves. 🦋✨ mwah.

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