POSTSCRIPT(nged)

hey bestie, welcome to POSTSCRIPT(nged) from the BRL-CAD User Commands set 💖 this page is all about the postscript command, and it's giving “temporarily attaches the Postscript display manager and outputs the current MGED display to the specified output_file in PostScript format” energy. periodt. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

postscript — temporarily attaches the Postscript display manager and outputs the current MGED display to the specified output_file in PostScript format. that's the whole name-card, no cap. 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

postscript [-f font] [-t title] [-c creator] [-s size_in_inches] [-l line_width] {output_file}

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so the whole move is: temporarily attach the PostScript display manager and output the current MGED display to the output_file you specify, in PostScript format. the following options control the generated output, and I'm listing every single one because we do not skip details in this group chat. 💅

🎀 the option menu 🎀

• -a author — sets the PostScript creator/author string. yes, creator and author string, exactly like the original says. 👑
• -b — draws a border around the output.
• -c r/g/b — sets the border color. (the synopsis line above says -c creator, but this option-list bullet says -c r/g/b = border color; I'm keeping both exactly as the page gives them, bestie — no edits, no merging, no “fixing.”) 🫶
• -f font — sets the PostScript font.
• -s size_in_inches — sets the drawing size in inches.
• -t title — sets the PostScript title string.
• -x offset — sets the X offset in inches.
• -y offset — sets the Y offset in inches.

-l line_width also shows up in the synopsis, and Example 2 literally uses -l 10 for fat lines. the original option list does not give -l its own bullet, so I am not inventing one — the detail is right there in the synopsis and the examples. ⭐

🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

okay so example 1 shows the postscript command putting a PostScript version of the current MGED display into a file you specify and giving it a particular title. example 2 is basically the same vibe except a line width is specified and the title and output file names are different. 🎀

Example 1. Place a PostScript version of the current MGED display in a specified file.

mged>postscript -t "Test Title" test.ps

Places a PostScript version of the current MGED display in a file named test.ps and titles it Test Title.” — yep, that little quote artifact at the end is in the source, and I'm not deleting it. 😭

Example 2. Specify the line width of a PostScript version of the current MGED display in a specified file.

mged>postscript -l 10 -t "Test Fat Lines" fat_lines.ps

Places a PostScript version of the current MGED display with fat lines in a file named fat_lines.ps and titles it Test Fat Lines.”. slay. 🔥

👑 AUTHOR 👑

BRL-CAD Team. iconic. 💜

🐛 BUG REPORTS 🐛

Reports of bugs or problems should be submitted via electronic mail to devs@brlcad.org. if something's weird, tell the devs, not the group chat. 🙈

mwah 💋 — sign-off from the BRL-CAD POSTSCRIPT(nged) page. the original footer just gives you BRL-CAD and POSTSCRIPT(nged) with no date printed, so that's the source/version footer tea and I'm not inventing a date. 🎀