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a2ps - Any to PostScript filter

Program started as a text to PostScript converter, with pretty printing and all the expected features of this kind of program, but it can now handle other file types (PostScript, Texinfo, DVI, web-authoring, PDF, etc.) provided you have the necessary tools.

While highly configurable, everything was designed so that even a novice can do complicated PostScript manipulations. For instance, the program can delegate the processing of some files to other filters (such as groff, texi2dvi, dvips, gzip,etc.) which allows a uniform treatment (n-up, page selection, duples, etc.) of heterogeneous files It also includes support for a wide range of programming languages, encodings (ISO Latins, Cyrillic, etc.), medias, and Native Language Support (NLS).

Obtaining

Web page	http://www.inf.enst.fr/~demaille/a2ps/
Source tarball	http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/a2ps/a2ps-4.13b.tar.gz

Version 4.13 (stable) released on 2000-02-23

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.

This is a GNU package.

Documentation

User information from http://www.infres.enst.fr/~demaille/a2ps/doc-4.13/a2ps_toc.html

Support contacts

Announce List	<a2ps@gnu.org>
Help List	<a2ps@gnu.org>
Bug List	<bug-a2ps@gnu.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers	Akim Demaille <akim@freefriends.org>
Developers	Akim Demaille <akim@freefriends.org> Miguel Satana <miguel.santana@st.com>
Contributors	Juliusz Chroboczek <jec@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Paolo Matos <psjm@students.fct.unl.pt> Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>

Related information

Interfaces	command line
Programs	card, fixnt, fixps, pdiff, psmandup, psset, Ogonkify
Source languages	C, shell script
Use requirements	PSUtils (psnup, psselect, etc.)
Weak prerequisites	Ghostscript, GV, gzip, ImageMagick, bzip2, acroread, groff, LaTeX, dvips, makeinfo
Related programs	enscript, GNU ghostscript, Ghostview, GNU trueprint

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-31
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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