GENERATE(1)

💖 NAME 💖

Generate — Generate Target PostScrip file. That's it, that's the whole job bestie, and it's iconic for it 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so. Generate does exactly one thing and it does it with main character energy: it generates a Target PostScrip file. no cap, that's the entire vibe. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

printtarg [-v] [-i instr] [-r] [-s] [-p size] basename

and now the part where we read the flags together, because there are a lot of them and honestly? she ate. 🫶

• -v — Verbose mode. she will narrate her little life to you. 💬
• -i 20 | 22 | 41 | 51 | SS | i1 | CM — Pick your target instrument (default is DTP41, lowkey the go-to).
  • 20 = DTP20
  • 22 = DTP22
  • 41 = DTP41
  • 51 = DTP51
  • SS = SpectroScan
  • i1 = i1Pro
  • CM = ColorMunki
• -h — Use hexagon patches for SS, double density for CM. hexagons?? she's giving geometry major ✨
• -a scale — Scale patch size and spacers by the factor you give (like 0.857 or 1.5 etc.)
• -A scale — Scale just the spacers by an additional factor (like 0.857 or 1.5 etc.)
• -r — Don't randomize patch location. keeping it predictable, we love a stable queen 🙈
• -s — Create a scan image recognition (.cht) file
• -S — Same as -s, but don't generate the wide orientation strip
• -c — Force colored spacers 🌈
• -b — Force B&W spacers
• -n — Force no spacers at all. minimalist era 💀
• -f — Create PostScript DeviceN Color fallback
• -w g|r|s|n — White colorspace encoding: DeviceGray (def, the default), DeviceRGB, Separation or DeviceN
• -k g|c|s|n — Black colorspace encoding: DeviceGray (def, the default), DeviceCMYK, Separation or DeviceN
• -o k|r|n — CMY colorspace encoding: DefiveCMYK (def, the default), inverted DeviceRGB or DeviceN
• -e — Output an EPS compatible file
• -t [res] — Output an 8 bit TIFF raster file, with optional res DPI (default 100)
• -T [res] — Output a 16 bit TIFF raster file, with optional res DPI (default 100)
• -C — Don't use TIFF compression
• -N — Use TIFF alpha N channels, more than 4
• -D — Dither 8 bit TIFF values down from 16 bit
• -Q nbits — Quantize test values to fit in nbits
• -R rsnum — Use the given random start number
• -K file.cal — Apply printer calibration to patch values and include it in the .ti2
• -I file.cal — Include calibration in the .ti2 (but don't apply it)
• -x pattern — Use the given strip indexing pattern (Default = "A-Z, A-Z")
• -y pattern — Use the given patch indexing pattern (Default = "0-9,@-9,@-9;1-999")
• -m margin — Set a page margin in mm (default 6.0 mm)
• -M margin — Set a page margin in mm and include it in the TIFF
• -P — Don't limit strip length
• -L — Suppress any left paper clip border
• -U — Suppress CUPS cupsJobTicket: cups-disable-cmm in PS & EPS files
• -p size — Select the page size from this little menu:
  • A4 — [210.0 x 297.0 mm]
  • A4R — [297.0 x 210.0 mm]
  • A3 — [297.0 x 420.0 mm] (default 👑)
  • A2 — [420.0 x 594.0 mm]
  • Letter — [215.9 x 279.4 mm]
  • LetterR — [279.4 x 215.9 mm]
  • Legal — [215.9 x 355.6 mm]
  • 4x6 — [101.6 x 152.4 mm]
  • 11x17 — [279.4 x 431.8 mm]
• -p WWWxHHH — Custom size, WWW mm wide by HHH mm high
• basname — Base name for input(.ti1), output(.ti2) and output(.ps/.eps/.tif)

heads up bestie: the synopsis and the option docs both spell it basname, so type it exactly like that, fr fr 🙈

and that's the whole page, you're so welcome 💜

this lil manual is printarg, from September 2014, living under the GENERATE(1) name in the User Commands section. periodt. 🦋✨