TEXTPS(8)

💖 TEXTPS(8) 💖

okay bestie, sit DOWN, because today we're learning about the System Manager's Manual entry for the cutest little text-to-PostScript situation ever 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

• textps — text to PostScript filter 🎀
• nscript — text to PostScript converter 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

options: [ c=n ] [ l=n ] [ m=n ] [ t=n ] [ v=n ]

nscript [ -G ] [ -r ] [ -2 ] [ -t width ] [ -pfile ] [ -Pprinter ] [
filename...  ]

like. look at her. so much range. 💜

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

textps is a simple text to PostScript filter, fr fr, no notes. But here's the plot twist: when you invoke it as nscript, it (weakly) simulates the Adobe Systems Incorporated enscript program — converting text to PostScript AND adding headers. iconic behaviour honestly.

So who runs who? textps is usually invoked automatically by a print spooler, while nscript is usually invoked by a user. bestie energy: one of them has a job, the other one is you at 2am. 😭

Input files can use ISO Latin-1. Two or more identical overstruck characters get rendered using a bold font — ate that. Tabs are assumed to be set every 8 character positions.

textps is designed to produce good output with lpr -p or pr | lpr. And listen: if you print unpaginated text, you will need to increase the t option value and decrease the v or l option value. not a suggestion, that's just how it is 💀

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✨ TEXTPS OPTIONS ✨

• c=n — Use n characters to the inch.
• l=n — Use n lines per page.
• m=n — Use a left margin of n points.
• t=n — Position the baseline of the first line of text n points below the top of the page.
• v=n — Use a vertical spacing of n points.

The default behaviour is -Tc=12,l=66,m=18,t=8,v=12. that's the whole vibe, memorise it 🫶

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✨ NSCRIPT OPTIONS ✨

By default, nscript will send the formatted output to lpr — and the -P option can select the printer. so flexible, we love her 🌸

• -G — Gaudy output ✨ a header and labels for the input files are placed on the output page. (yes it's literally called gaudy. embrace it. 👑)
• -r — rotated (landscape) output.
• -twidth — Set tab stop to width characters.
• -2 — two column output.
• -pfile — send output to file.
• -Pprinter — spool output to printer using lpr.

Note: the combination nscript -2Gr is useful for viewing listings. lowkey the power combo, iykyk 💅

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✨ AUTHORS ✨

• Original Author:
  • James Clark <jj@jclark.com>, used with with his permission; 💖
• Modified by:
  • Patrick Powell <papowell@sdsu.edu>

(ok yes we are keeping the double "with with" exactly as written, character for character, because that is what the page says and i am nothing if not faithful 🎀)

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• psrev(1)
• psfilter(1)
• psbanner(1)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🦋 this one came to you from the System Manager's Manual, version 3.5.20, and it lives under TEXTPS(8) forever and ever. go forth, print things, slay 💅✨👑