PSFONTS(1)

💅 psfonts / psdownload — General Commands Manual, PSFONTS(1) 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

psfonts, psdownload — add necessary fonts to PostScript document for printing 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

psfonts [ files ...  ]

psdownload [ options ] [ files ...  ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here’s the vibe, bestie: Plan 9’s troff(1) and tr2post(1) use non-standard PostScript fonts (found in /postscript/font). Before sending PostScript output from tr2post to a standard printer, code implementing the non-standard fonts must be added to the PostScript. That’s the whole reason this icon exists. 💅

psfonts copies files (or standard input) to standard output, adding necessary PostScript fonts. Lowkey magic, highkey useful. ✨

psdownload is the more general program used to implement psfonts. The options are:

• -c comment — Expect the fonts used in the document to be listed in a comment beginning with this string (default %%DocumentFonts:). 🎀
• -f atend — Expect extra fonts comments at the end of the document, so read the entire input before starting output (by default this only happens if a %%DocumentFonts: (atend) comment is encountered). 🦋
• -m mapfile — Use mapfile to translate from PostScript font names to files. Each line in the map has two white space-separated fields: a font name and the corresponding file. If mapfile is not a rooted path, it is evaluated relative to the fontdir (see -H below). 💖
• -p printer — Set the name of the printer. 🫶 This option is deprecated. Its only effect is to override the -r option, causing fontdir/printers/printer to be used as the resident fonts list. ⚠️
• -r residentfonts — Read a list of fonts assumed to be on the printer (not necessary to re-download) from the file residentfonts. If residentfonts is not a rooted path, it is evaluated relative to the fontdir (see -H below). 🌸
• -H fontdir — Set the directory that is assumed to contain the PostScript fonts and information about printers (see -m, -p, and -r above; default /postscript/font). 👑
• -T tmpdir — Use tmpdir for storing temporary files (default /var/tmp). 🍓
• -D — Produce copious amounts of debugging information on standard error. 😭🔍
• -I — Continue running even after fatal errors occur. 💀➡️💖

bestie, the -p deprecation is real — it only overrides -r like the manpage says. No cap. ✋

🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

See tr2post(1) for an example. That’s literally it. ✨

💜 SOURCE 💜

• /bin/psfonts
• /src/cmd/postscript/download

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

troff(1), tr2post(1) — go read those too, iykyk 🧚

okay bye bestie! footer check: this one’s PSFONTS(1) from the General Commands Manual — no extra date was printed on the page, just vibes. Mwah 💖✨